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Joining me now to talk travel. Megan Singleton, blogger at large dot com. How are we?

Joining me now to talk travel. Megan Singleton, blogger at large dot com. How are we?

I'm very well, Thank you people, you're going well?

I'm very well, Thank you people, you're going well?

Excellent, Yes I am. And some really good news if you travel through Augland Domestic Airport and you need to catch.

Excellent, Yes I am. And some really good news if you travel through Augland Domestic Airport and you need to catch.

A n Uber. Finally, after only eleven years of operating in New Zealand, Uber has been allowed to join the big boys up the front by the fore court and drop us off and pick us up in the actual taxi rank. It isn't that exciting? No more walking, you know, at least a couple of one hundred meters through the car rental garage to the alleyway where we used to have to get our ubers from as if we were like not to be seen, you know, finding out the back well.

A n Uber. Finally, after only eleven years of operating in New Zealand, Uber has been allowed to join the big boys up the front by the fore court and drop us off and pick us up in the actual taxi rank. It isn't that exciting? No more walking, you know, at least a couple of one hundred meters through the car rental garage to the alleyway where we used to have to get our ubers from as if we were like not to be seen, you know, finding out the back well.

And if you were doing it for the first time, you did wonder whether you going in the right direction where it wasn't you know. So, I mean, once you've done it once, you kind of worked it out. But this is quite a sensible move. Why has it taken so long?

And if you were doing it for the first time, you did wonder whether you going in the right direction where it wasn't you know. So, I mean, once you've done it once, you kind of worked it out. But this is quite a sensible move. Why has it taken so long?

Oh, I don't know why it's saying so long. Although the press release from all of the airport did say that people's changing habits of getting taxis, but we changed that eleven years ago, didn't we anyway, But taxis will still be there, so you can still use all your corporate cab and Alert and co op taxis and things like that they're still out the front. But the difference is in my husband's flown it twice this week. When you order your uber from within the airport, you will be assigned a bay number and so because it's still obviously no bigger than it was before, right, So then what you'll do is you'll stand in that bay, although there's not a lot of standing room, so whether that's still to be widened. If you can picture the domestic terminal, you've got the public drop off area and you've got foot pathsy the side, lots of space for you to stand and wait, not so much on the taxi rank side. So I guess they'll just sort of figure that out, maybe move some barriers around so that there is some more space there. But it is good news, especially if you're not if you don't walk. Well, you know, it was a big hike to actually walk to Domestic from Uber and so now they're up the front, so that's great news.

Oh, I don't know why it's saying so long. Although the press release from all of the airport did say that people's changing habits of getting taxis, but we changed that eleven years ago, didn't we anyway, But taxis will still be there, so you can still use all your corporate cab and Alert and co op taxis and things like that they're still out the front. But the difference is in my husband's flown it twice this week. When you order your uber from within the airport, you will be assigned a bay number and so because it's still obviously no bigger than it was before, right, So then what you'll do is you'll stand in that bay, although there's not a lot of standing room, so whether that's still to be widened. If you can picture the domestic terminal, you've got the public drop off area and you've got foot pathsy the side, lots of space for you to stand and wait, not so much on the taxi rank side. So I guess they'll just sort of figure that out, maybe move some barriers around so that there is some more space there. But it is good news, especially if you're not if you don't walk. Well, you know, it was a big hike to actually walk to Domestic from Uber and so now they're up the front, so that's great news.

And meanwhile, over at the International things are sit under construction.

And meanwhile, over at the International things are sit under construction.

There and that'll be some years away. So right now the road right in front of the fore Quarter is still closed, so you get the ubers can drop you off in the public pick up. If you're catching an Uber out of International, you need to go out hard left past the little coffee shop in the arrivals hall and you get your Uber over there. You don't walk back to where you where you were dropped, if you know what I mean. So it's still a little bit of an a maze and a wiggle waggle over there, but that's because you know they're going to be joining up the Domestic and the International terminals and there's quite a lot of construction and stillphing's happening. It's good news.

There and that'll be some years away. So right now the road right in front of the fore Quarter is still closed, so you get the ubers can drop you off in the public pick up. If you're catching an Uber out of International, you need to go out hard left past the little coffee shop in the arrivals hall and you get your Uber over there. You don't walk back to where you where you were dropped, if you know what I mean. So it's still a little bit of an a maze and a wiggle waggle over there, but that's because you know they're going to be joining up the Domestic and the International terminals and there's quite a lot of construction and stillphing's happening. It's good news.

Thank you very much for the update that was Megan Singleton, blogger at large dot com.

Thank you very much for the update that was Megan Singleton, blogger at large dot com.

For more from the Sunday session with Francesca Rudkin, listen live to News Talks at b from nine am Sunday or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio,

For more from the Sunday session with Francesca Rudkin, listen live to News Talks at b from nine am Sunday or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio,