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MUNICH—Airbus Group SE will provide helicopters to Uber Technologies Inc. for its on-demand services, the European plane maker’s chief executive said Sunday.
“Its a pilot project, we’ll see where it goes—but it’s pretty exciting,” Airbus Chief Executive Tom Enders said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal at the Digital Life Design conference here.
The project will launch at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah this week, he said. Airbus didn’t provide financial details of the agreement.
Uber, which launched in 2009 and runs a popular smartphone app that allows people to hail vehicles for mostly local trips, recently has expanded its offerings to incorporate other forms of transportation, including on-demand rickshaws in India and boats in Turkey.
The U.S. tech firm first tested its UberChopper service between Manhattan and the Hamptons in 2013. The company also has experimented with the helicopter rides for special events, such as at the Cannes Film Festival in May or the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in June.
Uber has charged between several hundred and several thousands of dollars for those rides.
The company will offer Airbus H125 and H130 helicopters for the Sundance project and has partnered with Air Resources, a Utah-based operator of H125 helicopters, an Airbus spokesman said.
Uber will dispatch a car to pick up clients for the chopper rides, the Airbus spokesman said. Uber couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.
Airbus to Join Forces With Uber for On-Demand Helicopter Service, CEO Says
Oh, yeah!!! Of course, I may not be able to afford it but it would beat the hell out of dealing with the airports and the prices to fly.
“Its a pilot project, we’ll see where it goes—but it’s pretty exciting,” Airbus Chief Executive Tom Enders said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal at the Digital Life Design conference here.
The project will launch at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah this week, he said. Airbus didn’t provide financial details of the agreement.
Uber, which launched in 2009 and runs a popular smartphone app that allows people to hail vehicles for mostly local trips, recently has expanded its offerings to incorporate other forms of transportation, including on-demand rickshaws in India and boats in Turkey.
The U.S. tech firm first tested its UberChopper service between Manhattan and the Hamptons in 2013. The company also has experimented with the helicopter rides for special events, such as at the Cannes Film Festival in May or the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in June.
Uber has charged between several hundred and several thousands of dollars for those rides.
The company will offer Airbus H125 and H130 helicopters for the Sundance project and has partnered with Air Resources, a Utah-based operator of H125 helicopters, an Airbus spokesman said.
Uber will dispatch a car to pick up clients for the chopper rides, the Airbus spokesman said. Uber couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.
Airbus to Join Forces With Uber for On-Demand Helicopter Service, CEO Says
Oh, yeah!!! Of course, I may not be able to afford it but it would beat the hell out of dealing with the airports and the prices to fly.