Uber enhance the progress and announces reached 2 billion trip

Announced today that Travis Kalanik CEO of passenger services on the upper Uber achieve the company on June 18 to 2 billion trips , and access to the No. 2 billion has been through the last 147 flight began simultaneously in 16 different countries around the world.

The company had announced in December / December of 201,530 reached for No. billion trips , which took to complete approximately six years, and today announces six months after all achieved the No. another billion .

The Company began Uber its run two cars in 2009 within the city of San Francisco, and has come a long way from the time to be announced at the end of 2014 for the arrival of the number of daily trips to a million trips , and noted the company a year later she recorded three million trips per day in 66 countries .

Travis said in a blog post published today that the achievement of the company to this figure was over 147 flight has simultaneously in 16 countries on five continents , from Costa Rica to Russia and from China to Australia.

The longest flight for more than an hour spent in the customer and the driver on the streets of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta , while a shorter trip in Changsha China lasted only three minutes .

The company intends to upper celebration this number by giving each driver took part in the figure of US $ 450 , and given the amount of US $ 450 in the form of free trips each customer 's of the 147 customers who have helped to reach 2 billion trips .