Uber正测试按需直升机服务

空中客车集团已与Uber达成合作，提供按需直升机服务。

欧洲飞机制造商空中客车，将向Uber提供空客H125和H130直升机。据《华尔街日报》报道，双方的此次合作正在犹他州的圣丹斯电影节（Sundance Film Festival）上接受检验。空中客车首席执行官汤姆•恩德斯在接受采访时表示：“这是一个试点项目。我们会关注它的结果——不过这确实令人非常兴奋。”

Uber一直在尝试融合除传统汽车服务之外的其他交通模式，包括在某些国家推出的人力车和轮船服务等，此次并非Uber第一次测试直升机服务。

这项新按需服务名为UberChopper，三年前便在纽约进行了第一次测试，在曼哈顿和汉普顿斯之间运送客户。2015年，在戛纳电影节和波纳若音乐艺术节上，Uber再次进行了测试。虽然恩德斯并未透露任何财务详情，但之前乘坐直升机的费用在数百至数千美元不等。（财富中文网）

译者：刘进龙/汪皓

Airbus Group airbus-group-n-v has partnered with Uber to offer an on-demand helicopter service.

The European airplane manufacturer will be providing Uber with Airbus H125 and H130 helicopters. The new collaboration is being tested at the Sundance Film Festival this week in Utah, according to the Wall Street Journal. “It’s a pilot project,” Airbus chief executive Tom Enders told the publication in an interview, “We’ll see where it goes—but it’s pretty exciting.”

Uber has been expanding to incorporate forms of transportation aside from its regular car service, including rickshaws and boats in some countries, and this won’t be the first time the company experiments with helicopters.

UberChopper, as the new on-demand service is being called, was first tested three years ago in New York, flying customers between Manhattan and the Hamptons. It tested again this past summer at the Cannes Film Festival and the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. Though Enders didn’t divulge any financial details, the rides have previously cost between hundred of dollars and thousands of dollars.