Uber can have your airport ride ready once you land. Here's how it'll work.

• Uber Reserve that allows you to automatically order an Uber once your flight lands.
• The feature allows you to reserve your ride up to 30 days in advance, so you know your ride is taken care of before you arrive.
• You have to request a more expensive Uber Black or Uber Black SUV to sync your flight information, according to CNBC.

Uber announced Wednesday new features, including an update to Uber Reserve that allows you to automatically order an Uber once your flight lands.

Here's how it'll work.

After you book your flight, you can reserve your ride up to 30 days in advance, so you know your ride is taken care of before you arrive.

Uber will automatically adjust your reservation based on the flight information you provide, so your driver is ready and waiting at the airport when your flight lands –whether it’s on time, early or delayed.

Even though your ride will be requested for you when you land, it'll only come pick you up when you're ready. With options for pickup in 20 minutes, 10 minutes or as soon as possible, Uber's "Ready When You Are" feature allows riders to select a pickup time depending on how long they think it'll take for them to get off the flight and gather their luggage.

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You have to request a more expensive Uber Black or Uber Black SUV to sync your flight information, though, according to CNBC. An Uber Black is a luxury vehicle with a professional driver and typically costs at least 1.5 times more than a regular UberXL but it can go higher depending on demand and other variables, according to Ridester.

Ready When You Are is currently piloting at six airports including Nashville (BNA), New Orleans (MSY), Portland (PDX), Philadelphia (PHL), Seattle (SEA) and Toronto (YYZ). It is available on Android starting Wednesday, and the iOS version is coming in November, according to Uber.

Uber is also throwing in a free 60-minute wait time, so you won't be charged if you need an extrahour to meet your driver.

The driver will be waiting for you at the curbside for your pickup.

Uber also has a feature in the works that uses machine learning to predict demand at airports and has a line of cars waiting at the curb for when major flights arrive.

This curbside pickup feature is available at more than 15 airports across the world including Chicago Midway (MDW), Las Vegas (LAS), Los Angeles (LAX), New Orleans (MSY), New York (JFK and LGA), Philadelphia (PHL), Portland, Oregon (PDX), Salt Lake City (SLC), San Diego (SAN), San Francisco (SFO), San Jose, California (SJC), and Seattle (SEA) in the U.S. as well as a handful of international destinations. These include Kolkata, India (CCU); London Heathrow (LHR); Montreal (YUL), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (RUH) and Toronto (YYZ).

Now that vaccinations are available across the U.S. and travel is picking back up, riders are returning at a faster pace than drivers. As a result, riders have had to wait significantly longer times as drivers remained in shortage. 

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If you're hungry after a long flight, Uber Eats customers can order and pay in-app from select airport restaurants and skip the line to pick up their meal. This feature is currently piloting at the Toronto Pearson Airport (YYZ), and will continue to roll out to U.S. airports in the coming months.

Uber's strategic airport upgrade comes at a time when travel is rebounding after more than a year and a half into the pandemic. Passenger traffic at airports has more than doubled compared to last year, but it's still lower than 2019 levels, according to TSA checkpoint data.

The number of U.S. airport trips on Uber grew 15% in the last two weeks of September, reaching a new high for 2021, according to an Uber news release.

However, travel spending has still not returned to pre-pandemic levels. In a report released by the U.S. Travel Association on Tuesday, it found that August 2021 travel spending totaled to $92 billion, 11% below August 2019 spending levels. August was also the first month in 2021 that travel spending dropped since January 2021, with levels for the year peaking at $100 billion in July.

The drop in spending corresponds to the prolonged spread of the delta variant and increasingly limited international options for American travelers. In recent weeks, destinations such as Bali, Argentina and Bulgaria have all banned U.S. travelers.

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Michelle Shen is a Money & Tech Digital Reporter for USA TODAY. You can reach her @michelle_shen10 on Twitter.