[joshvm]

Tube costs under a fiver (~hour). National express costs around a tenner (~half hour). If you take a non-booked taxi from an airport and it's not an emergency then you're a fool or rich, frankly.

$500+ a week (double that for the return) is a phenomenal amount of money to spend on commuting. If you value your time at $50 an hour and someone else is paying, then sure it may be worth it, but this won't scale simply because its impractically expensive for most people.

But I agree, $99 for a helicopter ride over New York is probably a lot cheaper than the experience companies.

[dogma1138]

Well i look at it from a point of view that people who'll use this service will either be people who can expense it as a business expense (some one else pays) or people who cam to NY as tourist which means they've already dumped couple of 1000's of dollars at least on their experience.

If i would go to NY for fun i would consider this as part of the tour, if i go there on business as i usually do it would be quite hard for me to expense it not because of the price but because i would have to put a helicopter ride on the expense report which might raise more than a few eyebrows at work...