WITH road congestion a reality of life nowadays, it was little surprise that the local social media scene was abuzz with announcements by popular ridesharing apps Uber and GrabTaxi that they were literally taking to the skies.
Grabtaxi was the more mysterious of the two as it teased people with a possible service tagged as “GrabHeli” that promises “awesome weekends up in the air” starting Nov. 24. Incidentally, that’s also when it invited members of the media to hear about this new service.
Uber, which announced Uberchopper, debuts sooner on Nov. 21 although it does state that it’s a promo for an aerial tour around Metro Manila via air charter service firm Airtrav. That means a fixed route with no stopovers to fetch friends at the mall.
It’s hard to say right now if that would eventually become an on-demand helicopter service, as some companies are doing now in other parts of the globe. We just hope the surge rates aren’t sky-high themselves. Miguel R. Camus
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