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Dear Partner,
UberEXEC continues to provide discreet, professional service across the capital - service which has made it an icon in London and of Uber across the globe.
In a continued effort to maintain EXEC as a premium product, we’re going to be raising prices for riders and with this Uber’s trip fee.
Starting at 4am on Monday, April 20th, the UberEXEC prices will increase by an average of 7% and the Uber fee on every trip will increase to 25%. Please note that airport flat fares will also increase in line with this.
In making this change, we’ve ensured that you will NOT see a reduction in your earnings.

Base: Same
Per Mile: before: 2.30 New: 2.40
Per Min: before: 0.25 New: 0.30

You do not need to do anything on your side during this transition but, as always, if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us at partnerslondon@uber.com
Best,
Driver Operations Team
Uber London

Uber are raising fares, and they'll benefit.

Driver's pay will remain (nearly) the same.

Though, as the fares haven't really changed much since the inception of UberExec, you could say it's been going down in real terms over the last couple of years.

From the rider's point of view, typical UberExec customers are price insensitive anyway, rides are often paid on company expenses.

Basically in the end uber are no different from the PH BArons in the way that the serfs get treated. If you read some of the online forums the drivers really struggle to make a living. A common reason given is too many cars, not enough work, now where have I heard that one before?

I think where Uber drivers do ok in London is in having the Uber app as a back up to use as and when you want, in addition to the normal circuit they work on.

Not sure that facility will be available UK wide.

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IDFIMH

Only when they are not crashing into things, including each other

We can all sit here and moan about Uber and how beastly they are, but they are not going away.

What the trade needs to do is offer as good a booking service, as good a tracking service, as good a driver/customer rating service, and any other service Uber might come out with.

What we don't want to do is keep bellyaching about something that's coming, we have got to live with Uber, so instead of acting like ostriches we need to be better than them, and make the public aware we are.

Down here the f***wits of the GMB have compiled a dodgy dossier on Uber, it appears the local GMB have come across a thing called google and have managed to press print on their printers.

And people actually pay for that level of representation.

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IDFIMH

Sussex is correct.

An app these days is easy enough to create. Most firms allow app ordering and car tracking. So a few tweaks here and there for ratings and driver faces and car type. Then boom. Same playing field and still £1.60 a mile.

Here in Newcastle I can not see a price as high as uber really taking off.

PH dont get tons of graft from toon at the weekend. Taxis get the students as they cba to book and wait.

I ask them and they also have no issue with fare for a taxi as it is fast and they split the journey.

They said if they can order an uber then they may as well just stick to hailing and uber as a last resort.

Most of the time they ring five offices and get first arrival. Student orientated job up here on Thurs Fri and Sat.

Already got an App for that and some

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!