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This article, Blade offers $95 helicopter rides to escape the NY pope traffic, originally appeared on CNET.com. View photo Blade wants you to get to the choppa to escape the pope traffic in New York City on Friday. Screenshot by Anthony Domanico/CNET Pope Blade, an Uber-for-helicopters startup, has a solution to the anticipated traffic congestion in New York City this weekend when the Pope visits the city. The startup, which raised $6 million at a $25 million valuation this summer from investors including Commuters looking to avoid hellish crosstown traffic during Pope Francis’s visit on Friday can take to the heavens. BLADE, which has been described as Uber for helicopters, is offering to ferry customers through the air between the E. 34th Street Rob Wiesenthal, CEO and founder of Blade, the Uber for helicopters, would like you to know that Blade is not a luxury product. He insists upon it. Summoning a helicopter to fly you to the Hamptons by tapping your iPhone is for the masses. Words like “VIP The $95 is the cost of a seat on a Blade helicopter shuttling between the East Side Heliport, at East 34th Street and FDR Drive, and the West Side Heliport at 30th Street and the West Side Highway. Helicopters will not fly directly across Manhattan but It's the ultimate ascension, in a way. For New Yorkers looking to avoid the horrible traffic expected Friday by visits from Pope Francis, President Barack Obama and the United Nations General Assembly, blade helicopters has come up with a solution. .

This post originally appeared on Business Insider. Blade, an Uber-for-helicopters startup, has a solution to the anticipated traffic congestion in New York City this weekend when the Pope visits the city. The startup, which raised $6 million at a $25 HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – Your average Black Hawk helicopter costs about $16 million. One rotor blade carries a price tag of $220,000. Obviously, if you can repair a damaged blade rather than replace it, you can save big money. That’s where shot peening An eight-minute hop from the West Side to the East Side, or vice versa, will cost just $95. Blade, the Uber-for-helicopters service that ferries New York's elites to and from the airport, the Hamptons, and so on, is offering a papal special: For $95 With $95 and a smartphone, though, New Yorkers can ascend to the heavens, or at least take a convenient 5- to 8-minute hop between 1st and 12th avenues, in a chartered helicopter from a startup called Blade. Blade, which is like Uber but for short .