So this company just offered a Groupon to Sky Harbor for $25 within a 15 mi radius. My boyfriend and I have an early morning flight on Thanksgiving day to visit family and I wanted to see if this date and time would be an issue.
I talked to the owner who was very nice at first and stated the Groupon was good any time or date that was not already booked. I gave him my location (which according to Google is 13.8 mi) and the date of my trip. Then he hemmed and hawwed about it being outside the area and sounded less than thrilled about my needs. THEN he made a creepy joke about the distance not mattering if the driver takes us out to the desert and leaves us there! I chuckled a bit and told him that probably wasn't the best way to get business.
It got even more interesting when I told him I needed to be at the airport by 5am. He ranted at me about how my friends get to sleep in and HE has to get up at the crack of dawn to get me to the airport. He told me he's the only driver on his staff who would be accommodating the Groupon requests because no one else wanted to work for so little money and I need to take into consideration that he lives in Anthem and has to come into the city to fulfill these requests. I quickly ended the call after he hopped up on his soapbox.
If you don't want to have to deal with the logistics of taking people to the airport, then WHY offer a car service in the first place. I would rather pay extra money not to put up with a potentially psychotic grouch on my holiday.