Wingz: Earn Money With Airport and Medical Rides

What is Wingz?

Wings is a ride sharing app that used to specialize in trips to the airport, but now primarily handles non-emergency medical transportation.

How it works

When you sign up with a driver profile, the site will set up an onboarding session with you. Drivers must pass a phone screening, DMV and background checks, and have an appropriate car. The only cars approved on this platform are late-model full-sized sedans, SUVs and mini-vans for airport rides. The standards are far more forgiving if you’re willing to do non-emergency medical transportation.

Joining may take time. Wingz says to expect onboarding to take 30 days.

Moreover, the site only operates in a few major cities, such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, San Diego, Austin, Dallas, Houston, Portland, Seattle, Miami and Orlando. (You choose your market from a drop-down menu on the site.)

Wingz Review

When we first reviewed this site, the bulk of Wingz rides were to airports. And that was generally a premium-priced gig well worth the time. Drivers estimated that average pay worked out to roughly $50 an hour.

But things have changed dramatically and as of February 2025, the site’s drivers are far less satisfied. And pay appears to be far closer to minimum wage now — if that.

NEMT rides

That’s largely because the site is doing non-emergency medical transportation, which primarily transports Medicare and Medicaid patients to and from appointments. That could be decently paid work but there’s a rub.

Normally, if a passenger books a ride in advance, they’d pay a cancellation or no-show fee if they didn’t show up. But Medicare doesn’t pay anything if a NEMT rider doesn’t show up. The government program only pays for completed rides.

And, since many Medicaid patients are homeless, often struggling with drug addiction problems, no-shows are common. NEMT drivers estimate that as many as 50% of these riders “ghost” them.

Drivers aren’t even compensated for the time and gas it takes to get to the pick-up spot with these rides. As a result, “average” pay has taken a severe hit.

Getting paid

Wingz pays drivers by direct deposit once a week.

Recommendations

We used to love this platform. Now, we think it might make sense for airport rides. But, NEMT transportation is a losing proposition under today’s Medicare/Medicaid rules.

We give this site a neutral rating, mainly for drivers who can exclusively take airport jobs. You can sign up with Wingz here.

Other sites to consider include Alto, which hires drivers as employees. And Uber and Lyft to fill in your return-trips.

You may also want to consider driving kids through Kango, RubiRides, KidCar or HopSkipDrive. All three promise higher rates of pay than typical ride sharing apps. And their peak times are late afternoons, when the typical ride share app is slow.

What their drivers say: (from UberPeople.net)

You have to build up your own private client list with them. It’s for frequent business travelers who want the same driver every time. Trips are pre-scheduled in advance. It’s up to you to find your own clients so they add drivers slowly. Only sign up if you do the airport regularly and want to hand out business cards to be peoples personal driver. Decent pay and good tips, but they expect black car service. You wont get many if any random pings.

Yep … pays $2/mi … but they only take 12%. Though it’s hard to swallow $2/mi when you’re used to $2.75 or $3.75

From Indeed

The management team only care about the company making money not the well-being of the driver or driver’s making money. Make sure you choose rides where there’s less traffic. High cancellations lead to low pay.

From Glassdoor

The whole process will take you a month to get hired just find out you will be making below DoorDash. It’s a total false advertisement promising that you could make up to a $1k a month. I quit first day and should have listened to the reviews I’ve read.

Updated 2/20/2025