The last couple of years has seen Uber become a fast-growing and popular transportation company since expanding it’s footprint into Europe.
In November 2015, Uber launched business profiles. These allow users to keep their business and personal trips separate. In March this year, the company started working with a number of expense management providers to file expense reports made using business profiles automatically. Uber says that more than a million people are now using business profiles.
Egencia has now integrated Uber fully into its app which is available for Android, iPhone and iPad. Say you have booked a flight from London to New York along with a hotel at your destination. If you are browsing your actionable itinerary within the app, you will see three ways of getting from the airport to the hotel – via public transport, car and by Uber – and how long each is expected to take.
Ground transportation at the destination is a constant challenge for business travellers. The second annual Egencia Business and Travel Technology Study found that 45 per cent of business travellers around the globe found arranging ground transportation to be the most frustrating part of booking their own travel. The slick integration of ground transportation options, including Uber, into the Egencia app should help ease that pain.
The uptake of Uber by business travellers was highlighted in April when travel and expense management services provider Certify revealed that the number of expense transactions relating to Uber and Lyft, another transportation network company, now accounted for 46% of the total ground transportation category, meaning that they had overtaken car rental. Transactions on Uber account for 43% of the total category.
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