FLY IN TEN MINUTES TO MELBOURNE AIRPORT

COME 2023, passengers familiar with hour-long commutes from Melbourne’s CBD to its airport could have the option of flying there in just ten minutes. Uber has chosen the city as its third official pilot city for its “aerial ridesharing” programme Uber Air. Test flights are scheduled to begin in 2020 and commercial operations in 2023. The programme will “open up urban air mobility and help alleviate traffic congestion on the ground using shared air taxis,” the company said. Passengers will be able to travel across a number of landing pads called “Skyports” for flying cars on the tops of buildings, for the same price as an UberX trip over the same distance. Uber says congestion now costs Australia A$16.5 billion (US$11.3 billion) annually. This amount is forecast to rise to about A$30 billion…

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Business Traveller Asia-Pacific Edition (Digital) - 1 Issue, July - August 2019

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