Uber – Uber testing helicopter Agencies in São Paulo – Süddeutsche.de

Even for the equivalent of 15 euros, the company wants customers to fly through the air. Nevertheless, it will remain a service for the rich.

Anyone in São Paulo with the car driving to work, grief is accustomed. During the rush hour is almost nothing in the Brazilian metropolis. Crawling crawling up to six million cars, buses, trucks and motorcycles daily on the part already ten-lane roads. Undisputed storage record from the spring of 2014: 344 km traffic jam. On a single Friday night. In a single city.

No wonder that on average well-heeled inhabitants of the metropolis does not want to hurt. Especially since they are afraid of being robbed during a stop at the intersection, or even worse, being abducted. They have long evaded the airspace. São Paulo is considered the city with the world’s densest network of helicopter landing sites, more than 400 helicopters are registered residents or resident companies.

In the future will earn on the business with the airspace taxis also driving service provider Uber. For a month, the company wants to convey helicopter flights over the Brazilian metropolis from now, as the first test phase.

First, three helicopters are used for the service named Ubercopter that are departing from five aerodromes and four hotels. Passengers are thus brought to airports, hotels and convention centers. A place in one of the aircraft to be reserve for the equivalent of 15 euros, for longer distances with accordingly greater time savings are more than 70 euros are due.

helicopter service for festivals already exists

In January Uber had been a cooperation with Airbus for the hire of helicopters known. So far, however, the service was used only on special occasions, such as the film festival in Cannes or the Coachella Festival in California

Even then, the service was mainly focused on the rich and famous who participate in these events -. And also Ubercopter in São Paulo will probably mostly used by those people with lots of money and little time. Although the flights are a lot cheaper than normal air taxis, which are those that usually only from the equivalent of about 300 euros each way – for most Brazilian workers are nevertheless unaffordable. Add to that the helicopter no goals such as office buildings or factories fly – it but several luxury hotels

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