Hi guys. There's a new speculation after the Uber Pool service rolled out a few weeks ago and we all know that it is somewhat not favored by partners and some passengers as well, Uber Manila will be trying a new service.

This is not yet confirmed but there are a lot of talks rounding in the community right now that Uber Manila will try a fixed priced service. It's much more like of a Grab system that let's the passenger go to point A to point B with a fixed priced matrix regardless of the time and traffic.

Here are some of the concerns we had experienced with Grab Car, some of our drivers did try Grab but we still loved Uber because of the per minute payment and per km payment.






Some of the concerns:

• Some passengers uses the fixed price system because there's no per minute charges, some of drivers experienced a multiple drop off. Meaning the original route is calculated but because of different drop offs, the other destinations aren't computed on the original fare.
• Rerouting aren't calculated on the original fare. This will be a big problem for the fix priced system, re-routes are definitely not in the computation.
• Some passengers do uses the fixed price system because it's convenient for them to let the driver wait for so long. We all know that we have a rules here in Uber which is a 10 minute waiting time. But looking at this, if a driver cancelled the trip while waiting for the customer for more than 30 minutes or more on a cash basis trip the thing is he will not get paid for it. Passengers will take advantage out of it. Longer time waiting for nothing.
• No More Surges :(