Mumbai: Carpooling to reach your work place is passe, fasten your seat belts to pool a chopper ride. At least that's what dozens of Mumbai-based entrepreneurs with factories in places like Boisar, Vapi, Nasik, Aurangabad have been discovering since the past few months.
Varun Verma (name changed on request), a 45-year old chemical engineer, has been making a grueling weekly road trip from his Nepeansea Road home to Vapi where his chemical unit is based for past 12 years. But not anymore, he has discovered chopper pooling.
"It is a nine hour journey to and fro. I leave home by 6 am and return on the same day by 11 pm as the facilities for overnight stay in Vapi are not very good,'' said Verma. So when he had to ferry a German team from Mumbai to his factory he had to hire a helicopter. But the Rs 2 lakh bill told him flying to work can't become a habit.
The idea of chopper pooling took root a few months later when he attended a seminar where he realised he could buy a seat rather than book an entire chopper. And since May, Verma has been helicopter pooling a Bell 407 twice a month—all he had to do was knock on the doors of neighbouring factories and speak to their owners.
Read News In Full 23/09/13 Manju V/Times of India
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