Comet
Take the airport run when the queue is short and the fare pays for the drive back. Skip it when you’d wait an hour for a short hop.
Take it when
- The queue is under 30 minutes, or you are dropping off anyway
- The offer is a long trip into a busy part of town
- Comet grades it green with the wait counted in your head
- You can chain it with a ride back toward the airport
Skip it when
- The lot already has more cars than flights landing
- The likely trip is a short hop to an airport hotel
- The drive back is long, empty and unpaid
- The verdict is amber and the queue was over an hour
Anatomy of an airport run
Waiting in the queue lot. Nobody pays for this part.
The offer: a 0.3 mile pickup and an 18.2 mile trip downtown.
Pickup and trip. The only minutes the fare covers.
The drive back if nothing comes up downtown.
Highly profitable — accept
$ / MIN1.28
$ / MILE2.08
$ / HOUR77.0
TRIP MI18.2
30 min · 18.5 mi$38.50
Comet grades the offer itself, and this one is a clear accept: $77 an hour on the trip. The queue is yours to weigh. Add the 45 minutes in the lot and the same fare works out to $30.80 an hour, still fine, but no longer special.
Count the wait like a pickup
Queue minutes are engaged minutes you will never be paid for. Treat a long queue the way Comet treats a long pickup: as time the fare has to cover.
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