Uber has launched international and domestic flight bookings on its UK app and if it’s successful it could be coming Down Under. 

The move is “the latest and most ambitious step” in the company’s strategy to expand its core ride-booking business, Uber’s UK General Manager Andrew Brem told the Financial Times.

The San Francisco-based company, which already offers train and coach ticket bookings in the UK, has begun rolling out the new feature for some of its UK customers and plans to expand in the coming weeks, the report said.

Uber has partnered with travel booking company Hopper to sell flights and will take a small commission from each sale, the report said.

To book a flight, Uber users will simply need to enter their travel information, including where they are flying from and to, and the planned travel date. The company said they would then be able to select one-way and return flights, and then select and pay for seats in the app, if travelling with a major airline.

It’s all part of the company’s goal to create “seamless door-to-door travel solutions”.

Andrew Brem, general manager at Uber UK, told The Guardian: “Our new functionality will make the booking and managing of air travel simple and stress-free, with the booking process taking as little as one minute.”

In the UK, Uber already allows users to add bookings for trains, boats, and buses through partnerships with Eurostar, Thames Clippers, Omio, National Rail, National Express, and Megabus.

According to The Verge, Brem claimed the train bookings had proved “incredibly popular” so far, saying booking numbers have increased by 40 percent each month since launching the feature in August last year.

It’s the latest expansive move from the disruptor ride-share company. In 2019 Uber’s chief executive, Dara Khosrowshahi, shared his vision that the company would become “an operating system for everyday life” when he merged its ride-hailing and Uber Eats food delivery services.

This story originally appeared on escape.com.au It has been reproduced here with permission. 

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