{"id":646252,"date":"2025-09-15T09:50:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T04:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=646252"},"modified":"2025-09-15T09:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T04:26:07","slug":"new-era-of-air-travel-uber-to-allow-users-to-book-helicopters-in-most-populated-cities-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/new-era-of-air-travel-uber-to-allow-users-to-book-helicopters-in-most-populated-cities-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018New era of air travel\u2019: Uber to allow users to book helicopters in \u2018most populated cities in the world\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ride hailing platform Uber is all set to take its business to skies as it plans to offer helicopter rides to customers through its application, the San Francisco-based company said in a statement. For this, Uber is teaming up with electric air taxis maker, Joby Aviation, to bring the services as soon as next year. <\/p>\n<p>This comes just a month after Joby acquired Blade Air Mobility, which already allows passengers to use helicopters and seaplanes, in a $125 million deal, reported CBS News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ride hailing platform Uber is all set to take its business to skies as it plans to offer helicopter rides to customers through its application, the San Francisco-based company said in a statement. For this, Uber is teaming up with electric air taxis maker, Joby Aviation, to bring the services as soon as next year. This comes just a month after Joby acquired Blade Air Mobility, which already allows passengers to use helicopters and seaplanes, in a $125 million deal, reported CBS News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}