Getting to the Alps is about to get a lot easier and a lot more fun thanks to a flight pooling helicopter service born from a cross-channel partnership between GetHeli and Alpe Hélicoptères.

Get Heli's scheme enables helicopters to be used in a more planet-conscious way. By flying helicopters full, the heli-pooling system replicates the sharing model already familiar in other sectors, such as road travel.

When Get Heli launched three years ago, it was one of the only online software providers, and now the digital offering is much more and far more widespread, although it is still the only marketplace that's purely rotary.