{"id":12130,"date":"2015-02-18T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12130"},"modified":"2015-02-19T03:45:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T08:45:30","slug":"uber-for-helicopters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/uber-for-helicopters\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber For Helicopters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/021815_0503_UberForHeli1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ashley Feinberg covered a service that aims to be the Uber for helicopters in New York City:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A typical flight on the service costs $219, a bargain compared to the $1,000 cost of chartering your own helicopter.<\/li>\n<li>For the ride to work at least three (and up to five) other people have to have booked it at the same time.<\/li>\n<li>At launch the service will run from 8am to 8pm, but the plan is to ultimately make it 24 hours a day.<\/li>\n<li>The only two destinations at the moment are the major airports in the area.<\/li>\n<li>Passengers can wait for their ride in a lounge at the heliport with <span style=\"color: #222222;\">hors d&#8217;oeuvres and cocktails.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Upon boarding they&#8217;ll be offered a pair of Bose noise-cancelling headphones to make for a more pleasant ride.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read other attempts at the same idea, why the service will probably fail, its founder&#8217;s dreams for it, and much more <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/uber-for-helicopters-is-gross-and-absurd-and-i-want-to-1684609323\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/uber-for-helicopters-is-gross-and-absurd-and-i-want-to-1684609323\">Gizmodo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashley Feinberg covered a service that aims to be the Uber for helicopters in New York City: A typical flight on the service costs $219, a bargain compared to the $1,000 cost of chartering your own helicopter. For the ride to work at least three (and up to five) other people have to have booked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/021815_0503_UberForHeli1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12130"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12134,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12130\/revisions\/12134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}