Plain old UberX is still blocked. Black and Select work currently.

Car service is cheaper. Get on with it peeps!

Not cheaper for me - I guess I live too close to the airport.

My UberX going to LAX can be under $20, and from my office, under $10.

It's quoting me around 150 dollars for black/110 for select.

Just for comparison purposes, I ran an estimate from SNA to LAX on Lyft. It starts at $58 for a four passenger vehicle (six person car is $84). Why is that service not included in your decision matrix?

My real life UberX trips in the past two weeks:
~$49 from Huntington Beach to LAX
~$36 from LAX to HB (no traffic; prearranged with my friend for pickup, then started the ride outside the geofence)

According to the lyft web site my home is not in their service area.

LYFT is approved for LAX. I used Lyft locally today and asked about the LAX pick-up. Drivers like it. Very convenient for them.

Talked to a friend who's a driver for both Lyft and Uber; he said it was a cluster. He went to check out the holding area, and it was just a sea of Lyft drivers hanging out; supposedly when their GPS says they're in the LAX geofence, they get added to a queue, and they basically hope they get a long-distance trip to make it worth it. Pretty much like a taxi rank/pen, just with personal cars and pink mustaches.

He left.

So they'll love us. I will check out Lyft. I was misinterpreting their coverage map, they have one for LA and another for Long Beach, and another for Newport Beach, and so on. It does look like they are a bit cheaper than Uber.

I used Lyft from LAX on the 28th, there were lots of other people using it too. They pick up on the upper level (but not all drivers know that yet, mine didn't, so I had to dash down the stairs). It was about $43 to Altadena at 2am-- cheaper than the shared ride shuttles and a lot less hassle (no loops of the airport, no being the last one dropped off)

Ok, we're maybe 8 miles further than you, so that's not bad.

That's pretty dang cheap. I feel bad for the drivers, given that they probably have to subsidize half of the price to drive back home. (or more if they happen to live the other direction)

Seems like they'd drive to pick up a ride the other way, but maybe not always one available. 2 am would be tough. We will be using in middle of day.

The drivers LOVE the long drive. I talked to a few and they all said if they all hope for long drive picking up from airport. It is the little short hops that they dislike. And one said that he could get tax break on the return mileage or something like that.

I used to think that the drivers get to see the destination before accepting the ride, but turns out it is not the case. The guy said that if they get to see it, then no one would pick up the short rides.