{"id":3387,"date":"2017-09-10T00:36:08","date_gmt":"2017-09-09T16:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=3387"},"modified":"2017-09-10T00:36:08","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T16:36:08","slug":"grab-bagged-south-east-asia-uber-still-in-the-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2017\/09\/10\/grab-bagged-south-east-asia-uber-still-in-the-running","title":{"rendered":"Grab bagged South East Asia? Uber still in the running"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see a lot of anecdotal evidence that people claim Grab has South East Asia in the bag and Uber is doomed. I beg to differ.<\/p>\n<p>I take a Grab or Uber from KLIA quite a bit. I always try the Grab app first. Take yesterday (Friday night\/Saturday morning). I landed at 1am and tried the Grab app twice: one for GrabCar and another for JustGrab. It found no rides.<\/p>\n<p>Contrast that to Uber. Tried for UberX once and I was in a car within 5 minutes. This is generally my experience when it comes to using Uber versus Grab at the airport.<\/p>\n<p>I try to speak to drivers for a bit before delving into reading on my tablet. Today my driver whom has completed 840 trips on the Uber platform in the 9 months he has been on it told me he is Uber-exclusive. He knows Grab exists but he&#8217;s all in on Uber.<\/p>\n<p>Some drivers do drive for both platforms. But it is clearly not all.<\/p>\n<p>So my experience so far has been that I&#8217;m doing better with Uber even though I try Grab first. And I estimate my data points from KLIA are approximately 3 rides per month.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, not having to use Alm Cabs &#8220;airport limousine&#8221; is clearly the bonus here!<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Grab%20bagged%20South%20East%20Asia%3F%20Uber%20still%20in%20the%20running&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2017%2F09%2F10%2Fgrab-bagged-south-east-asia-uber-still-in-the-running&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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I beg to differ. I take a Grab or Uber from KLIA quite a bit. I always try the Grab app first. Take yesterday (Friday night\/Saturday morning). I landed at 1am and tried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Grab%20bagged%20South%20East%20Asia%3F%20Uber%20still%20in%20the%20running&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2017%2F09%2F10%2Fgrab-bagged-south-east-asia-uber-still-in-the-running&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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