Uber decided to rent the helicopters from Airbus to provide its users with services of air taxi, reports The Verge. Land taxis will carry passengers to the helipad, where the citizen will put in a helicopter and deliver where it should. The landing site will have to wait for another Uber driver that will take the passenger to their destination.

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Uber decided to rent the helicopters from Airbus to provide its users with services of air taxi, reports The Verge. Land taxis will carry passengers to the helipad, where the citizen will put in a helicopter and deliver where it should. The landing site will have to wait for another Uber driver that will take the passenger to their destination.

Uber has already several times offered similar services, but they have never been part of the core service of the company and rather a promotion to the various activities. Then one helicopter flight passengers had to pay from several hundred to several thousand dollars. What will be the cost of the trip in the current air taxi, not yet reported.

according to representatives of Airbus, this is a pilot project. After testing schemes and market research company will decide in what direction to develop it further.

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