This is real (Picture: uber chopper/Alpha Tours)

Yeah, UberChopper is a thing.

The airborne side of the popular taxi service launched in Dubai for the 2015 F-1 Grand Prix.

It costs around £410 each for the door-to-door service from a helipad at Yas to the Grand Prix gates.

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It costs around £410 each (Picture: uber chopper/Alpha Tours)

The chopper takes up to six people and is selected in usual Uber app fashion.

The service is running hourly over Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

And yes, people are actually using it.

I want to get out to the F1… Patiently waiting at the helipad, alas, someone is using my #UberChopperUAE @Uber_UAE pic.twitter.com/R1IoXiaQOF — Jono Haysom (@JonoH) November 26, 2015