Surge pricing at airport for pickups
Recently started using ridesharing services to/from the airport. Interesting experience last night at ORD (Thu night is usually pretty heavy).
Typical fare to get home is usually around $37-38. Tried Uber first - quoted me $63 due to surge pricing. I was pretty shocked, to say the least. Then tried Lyft. Quoted me about $38.xx. No apparent Prime Time add-on. Obviously went with Lyft.
Are these surge/prime time rate increases (about a 65-70% fare increase) fairly typical for Uber? Lyft definitely seems more reasonable in their pricing, probably b/c they're not as popular yet.