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Uber and Lyft are focusing on their loyalty programs, with new partnerships designed to keep members ordering cars, meals and groceries for longer periods of time.

Travel companies laid off more than 6,600 employees in 2023. The total comes from more than 20 travel companies that disclosed layoffs for various reasons.

Lyft is introducing a new sustainability dashboard for companies in the Lyft Business Portal.

Oyo disclosed on Friday that it is reducing the size of its proposed initial public offering to between $400-$600 million, a steep reduction from its plan to value the offering at $1.1 billion, a source close to the company told Skift. Oyo pre-filed its draft red herring prospectus on Friday with the Indian stock market.

Ride-sharing firm Lyft has appointed David Risher, a former Amazon and Microsoft senior exec, as its new CEO.

Only a small percentage of companies are ditching their offices entirely, with growing numbers of staff returning to workspaces on Fridays, research has revealed.

A key selling point of rideshare services like Uber and Lyft is their transparency. Users know where their ride is, how soon it will arrive to pick them up, and how much the fare will be to their destination.

Earlier this year, Starbucks made a move that will be all too familiar to travelers: The company converted its loyalty program to a spend-based scheme, rewarding members according to the amount of their purchases rather than the number of their visits.

It has long been a centerpiece of Uber and Lyft’s self-promotion that the proliferation of such ridesharing services was a boon to the country’s most congested cities. The idea was that by giving people an alternative to firing up their own cars for every trip, no matter how long or how short, the net amount of city traffic would be reduced.

In a move that might have you choosing Uber from now on, Lyft customers are no longer available to split fares with a friend through the ride-sharing app. Lyft abruptly announced that they removed the feature this week.

Rely on Uber and Lyft when you land in a new destination? You might want to reconsider, as many airports are ending curbside pickup for rideshare apps admid construction and traffic woes.

It will soon be more expensive to take a rideshare service such as Uber and Lyft from one of the busiest airports in America.  On August 1, Orlando International Airport will raise the built-in fee for airport pick-ups by 20 percent, to $7 per ride.  The timing of the fee increases will be spread out through the fall, with the first 10 percent taking place on August 1, and the second increase of 10% taking place on October 1, according to a local media report.  In a statement to Travel + Leisure from Uber, the rideshare company said that the airport is unfairly passing along a surprise charge to airport passengers and impacts its drivers.  “At a time when Floridians are facing higher costs due to inflation and the increasing price of auto insurance, it is unconscionable that the Orlando Airport is targeting Uber drivers and riders with a proposal to increase the pickup tax by 20 percent to $7 per pickup–the highest pickup tax of any airport in the country,” a Uber spokesperson shared with Travel + Leisure.  Uber also says they are committed to working with the Airport’s Board to find a solution, and points out that taxis only have to pay $4 per pickup (in comparison for the $7 for rideshare).