"Kevin Ashley" wrote:
Shared ride services seem very popular at US airports, and there are
usually
competing providers except at airports like Washington Dulles where the
airport
does an exclusive deal with a single operator. They're competing with
cabs,
car hire and (in a small number of cases) public transport, and definitely
going for the business traveller in most places I have seen them.

Every major Eurpoean resort has them for the tourists - 'resorthopper' etc;
but they are mostly a shoestring organisation that subcontrcats to coach,
minibus and taxi companies as needed - plus they get tie-ups with booking
companies 'travelrepublic' etc.

Natex have applied the same overprovision of service as their clunky
websites, and little flexibility for the (rather obvious) swings in demand,
combined with the inherent unpredictability of the travel world. Nimble they
ain't.

Someone should make them write out 100 times:
"cheap and cheerful, please, if we wanted to overpay, we'd have taken a
black cab."
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Andrew