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Plus left at a time and to a destination that you didn’t get to specify.

Compare the Uber (personalized, on-demand) transport to a private airplane more than a bus-in-the-sky.

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For comparison, a Greyhound bus on the same route I was about to take a Southwest flight on was about $160 and took 36 hours with 2 transfers compared to $250 on Southwest with one transfer and 5 hours total travel time.

The costs are fairly equivalent, oddly enough.