Ridehailing Competition Delivers Fatal Blow to Airport Transport Service SuperShuttle

Isaac Carey

December 13th, 2019 at 12:15 PM EST

Photo Credit: A SuperShuttle van is parked by the curb. Flickr / André-Pierre du Plessis Follow

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This is yet another casualty of the Uber and Lyft era. Other airport shuttle services will likely be next.

SuperShuttle, the decades-old airport shuttle service that operates at airports around the world, will cease operations by the end of the year. In a franchisee letter obtained by the Los Angeles Times this week, SuperShuttle stated it would continue to pick up and transport passengers until December 31, 2019. The company currently services 80 airports both in the U.S. and internationally, but has struggled in recent years as Uber and Lyft have become more predominant at airports. The company started in 198

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