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California's regional airports are seeing record numbers of fliers this year even as...

Your seat belt is fastened. >> reporter: this is around the time it would have taken us if we had take en an uber, about 4 minutes ago. this is the time we would have been arriving at our destination. but you can't beat the view. what's the difference between uber air and uber copter? >> uber copter is available between lower manhattan and jfk that you can book and we're opening up to all users of the uber app. and uber air is a future product that we're going to launch once we have new vehicles. uber copter is the first version of that future product. that's fundamentally of what we think of ...

More efficiently and allows the ride to take less turns so the ride itself is more efficient and then we are thinking about alternative forms of transport. if you look at jump, the average length of a trip at jump is 2.6 miles. that is 30 to 40% of our trip's in san francisco are 2.6 miles or less. jump is much, much cheaper than taking an uber x. let's canaibilze ourselves and uber not just being about cars and the best solution for us but really about -- >> so bikes, scooters? >> bikes, perhaps scooters, i want to get the bus network on. i want to get the bart or metro on to uber. anyway to ...

Matching program to stop it from happening. australian officials say this is a limited pilot program and they say three other nations are taking part. the united kingdom, canada and the united states. stand by for leaks. uber putting out plans for their flying taxi. looks like a small plane and a helicopter. officials say they would like to start testing the taxis by 2020. folks should be able to order them before the end of the next decade. for costs, order an air taxi could be the same price as an uber x. there's plenty of obstacles and uber is working with nasa like air traffic systems, any...

And in that same sort of shared economy vein, uber x did not exist during the last inauguration and this weekend, prices were surging more than five times. >> at least you got a silver lining, like minded people. like i cannot believe the hotel prices. >> so insane and they actually said they would not have been able to come had they needed to stay in a hotel so it gave them the opportunity to do that. >> i have used air b & b during events where there was crowd dense places. g new cars.