A police officer in Virginia went above and past the decision of obligation when he quickly took on a second job as an Uber Eats driver to assist out a person who had simply been in a automotive accident.

The San Francisco-based firm, which already provides prepare and coach ticket bookings within the UK, has begun rolling out the brand new characteristic for a few of its UK prospects and plans to broaden within the coming weeks, the report mentioned.

Uber has partnered with journey reserving firm Hopper to promote flights and can take a small fee from every sale, the report mentioned.

To guide a flight, Uber customers will merely have to enter their journey data, together with the place they’re flying from and to, and the deliberate journey date.

The corporate mentioned they might then be capable to choose one-way and return flights, after which choose and pay for seats within the app, if travelling with a significant airline.

It is all a part of the corporate’s aim to create “seamless door-to-door journey options”.

Andrew Brem, common supervisor at Uber UK, informed The Guardian: “Our new performance will make the reserving and managing of air journey easy and stress-free, with the reserving course of taking as little as one minute.”

Within the UK, Uber already permits customers so as to add bookings for trains, boats, and buses by partnerships with Eurostar, Thames Clippers, Omio, Nationwide Rail, Nationwide Categorical, and Megabus.

In response to The Verge, Brem claimed the prepare bookings had proved “extremely in style” up to now, saying reserving numbers have elevated by 40 % every month since launching the characteristic in August final 12 months.

It is the most recent expansive transfer from the disruptor ride-share firm. In 2019 Uber’s chief govt, Dara Khosrowshahi, shared his imaginative and prescient that the corporate would turn out to be “an working system for on a regular basis life” when he merged its ride-hailing and Uber Eats meals supply companies. 

– with Reuters