Forward of the beginning of the Paris Olympics, Uber unveiled a collection of recent options, merchandise and partnerships Tuesday, together with a Flying Blue promotion that offers passengers the prospect to earn miles all through France and the Netherlands.
Eligible riders can earn 1 Flying Blue mile for each euro ($1.09) spent on Ubers. Prospects who take 4 or extra journeys monthly can earn 2 miles for each euro they spend. The promo is just for passengers in France and the Netherlands, together with vacationers.
“This can be a multiyear partnership with Flying Blue,” an Uber spokesperson stated. “Our focus for now could be on rides taken in France and the Netherlands.”
Riders can take part within the promo by linking their Uber and Flying Blue accounts of their Uber app settings.
Along with the Flying Blue promo, Uber introduced a brand new search function, Metropolis Insights, for riders to discover Uber choices in 10,000+ cities worldwide (extra particulars will likely be obtainable upon the product’s official launch). Open your Uber app, faucet “The place to?” and choose “Search in a unique metropolis” to flick thru the totally different experiences that will likely be obtainable. Moreover, it is possible for you to to trace wait occasions and estimated experience prices with Metropolis Insights.
“At preliminary launch, riders will be capable of discover common wait occasions and costs in 10,000+ cities all through the world,” stated an Uber spokesperson.
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Though passengers might reserve rides inside the common Uber app interface, they will now accomplish that via Metropolis Insights, too.
“With this function, riders have the choice to make use of Uber Reserve to ebook rides prematurely from any level inside the metropolis,” stated an Uber spokesperson. “With this function, riders also can use Uber Reserve to schedule an airport pickup.”
Paris airports will undoubtedly be busy within the days main as much as and in the course of the Olympics. Metropolis Insights (in addition to the app’s Uber Reserve perform) offers you the flexibility to order rides at airports all over the world, together with:
- New York Metropolis’s John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport (JFK)
- New York Metropolis’s LaGuardia Airport (LGA)
- Newark Liberty Worldwide Airport (EWR)
- Chicago’s O’Hare Worldwide Airport (ORD)
- Chicago Halfway Worldwide Airport (MDW)
- Los Angeles Worldwide Airport (LAX)
- Melbourne Airport (MEL)
- Sydney Airport (SYD)
- Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG)
- Good Cote d’Azur Airport (NCE)
- Paris-Orly Airport (ORY)
- Rome Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci Airport (FCO)
- London’s Heathrow Airport (LHR)
- Delhi Indira Gandhi Worldwide Airport (DEL)
Uber additionally expanded two Paris-specific activations, together with Uber Bubbles, the primary Champagne tour (launched in partnership with ritzy Champagne homes Perrier-Jouet and G.H. Mumm) which you could ebook in-app. For 200 euros ($218), friends will likely be whisked away in an Uber Bubbles-branded Tesla to 2 wine tastings and lunch.
If you wish to sail down the Seine in model this summer time, take into account reserving an Uber Boat, which helps you to prebook a free personal river cruise immediately on the Uber app. Cruises can be found each day between 3 and 10 p.m., final one hour and depart each 20 minutes from the Pont Marie bridge in central Paris. Uber Boat will likely be bookable within the Metropolis of Gentle from July 12 via 18, in addition to from July 28 via Aug. 3.
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