LAX Pick Ups - It is still the customer's choice

With the news of LA law makers agreeing to allow Uber and Lyft type companies into the arrivals area at LAX there comes another issue, the rising cost of the fare. Also, will the city of Los Angeles hold TNC companies to the fire for only using contact workers and not employees?

Some drivers are speculating that travelers will not be willing to pay the additional $4 to be picked up at the white zone. Instead, they may opt to how things have been going on for quite sometime and working quite well.

For the past few years that TNC operators have been operating near the airport, parking on side streets near La Cienega and Century. Seasoned travelers have been using Uber, Lyft and Sidecar by hopping on the shuttles or the free bus to the transit mall and requesting their ride shares outside the airport.
 
Perhaps the powers that be at LAX should take a drive down to John Wayne and see how it is working quite well.  Drivers park outside of the airport and are not permitted into the airport unless they are delivering a passenger or picking up someone in arrivals. When the driver gets a request, they call the passenger to find out what terminal they are waiting and what number column they are standing by. LAX does not have column numbers but they do have an arrivals area for every airline. That should work quite nicely.

We will see in the weeks ahead how they plan to make this happen.