Airbus will provide helicopter to Uber in ordering to establish an on - demand escape service . The initiative , said to be a “ pilot project , ” will debut at the Sundance Film Festival later this hebdomad .
The Wall Street Journal reportsthat the serve , confirmed by the Airbus chief executive director Tom Enders , will utilise H125 and H130 chopper to ferry rider . Uber will use its cars to get passengers to and from the landing site .
It ’s not the first time Uber has flirted with chopper drive : It ’s ferried people by chopper at the Cannes Film Festival , Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival , and even between Manhattan and the Hamptons . But it usher that Airbus is looking to expand its purview for possible client .
It ’s not clean how much the flights will cost , but in the past Uber has charged somewhere in the region of hundred or thousands of dollars for a flight of stairs .
[ Wall Street Journal ]
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