{"id":99214,"date":"2025-12-29T21:13:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T21:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/99214\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T21:13:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T21:13:06","slug":"travelers-experience-long-waits-for-ride-share-services-at-fll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/99214\/","title":{"rendered":"Travelers experience long waits for ride-share services at FLL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0December 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0December 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 Monday is a peak travel day during the busy year-end season. Travelers\u2019 wait times for pickups at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport were longer than usual. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Drivers with ride-sharing services struggled with traffic. James Ermitus said an Uber driver was meeting him at FLL in 27 minutes. Everton Allen expected a 20-minute wait. Abbigail Baumstark said last she checked it was 35 minutes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt says like 22, then it says 18, then it goes back to 30,\u201d Baumstark said. \u201cI feel like normally it is a pretty good system, but this year it is not.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Diamond Santos said he didn\u2019t even have a wait time yet, since he had been struggling to get matched with an Uber or Lift driver. A spokesperson for FLL attributed the high traffic ahead of the terminals to more travelers choosing to use the on-site parking. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ruben Ortiz, an Uber driver, said travelers needed to be proactive about contacting drivers and be ready to wait patiently. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cAs soon as they call, text the driver, \u2018Hey, I\u2019m here, and I am going to be waiting for you,\u2019 and that\u2019s it,\u201d Ortiz said. \u201cThere is nothing they can do. There is no way around it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Related social media<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#8217;s going to be a busy few weeks at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FLL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#FLL<\/a> during the year-end <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Holiday2025?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Holiday2025<\/a> travel season. If you&#8217;re traveling through our airport, take a look at these <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/traveltips?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#traveltips<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/roadwaysafety?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#roadwaysafety<\/a> reminders to help make your holiday trip smoother. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrowardCounty?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@BrowardCounty<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/browardinfo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@browardinfo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PortEverglades?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@PortEverglades<\/a>\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/owPMIA93df\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/owPMIA93df<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Int&#8217;l Airport (FLL) (@FLLFlyer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FLLFlyer\/status\/2002053211977666929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 19, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Traffic <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Advisory?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Advisory<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FLL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#FLL<\/a>\u2019s 2025 year-end holiday travel period runs through Monday, January 5, 2026. With peak airline passenger activity and the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PortEverglades?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@PortEverglades<\/a> cruise season in full swing, there will be busier roadways at the airport and in surrounding areas. So, please allot\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1iO9TwKjrb\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/1iO9TwKjrb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Int&#8217;l Airport (FLL) (@FLLFlyer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FLLFlyer\/status\/2003935530925350937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 24, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Roy Ramos\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/a327c0b5-d59c-45a5-a2.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Roy Ramos<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Roy Ramos joined the Local 10 News team in 2018. Roy is a South Florida native who grew up in Florida City. He attended Christopher Columbus High School,\u00a0Homestead Senior High\u00a0School and graduated from St. Thomas University.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0December 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM Updated:\u00a0December 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 Monday is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-99214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-fort-lauderdale","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}