New York City is served by not one but three major airports, and you'd think that would make it blissfully easy to fly into or out of Manhattan. In reality, trying to get to any of those airports results in a painful decision between the lesser of many evils, including costly hired cars or affordable but inconvenient trains.

Increasingly, New York's business travelers are turning to Uber to get them to their airport of choice, hoping that the traffic and surge pricing gods smile in their favor. Today, Uber launches a new service that will free you from mundane earthly traffic -- if you're an efficient packer and don't mind the cost.

It's called Uber Copter, and it might just be the new best way to get to JFK. The service launched earlier this summer, but initially only to Uber's top-tier customers. Today it's open to everyone, and the company was kind enough to invite me for a quick spin.

The process of booking a Copter ride is easy, which is the most amazing part of the whole service. I arbitrarily chose the Bowery Ballroom as my point of origination and the amazing TWA Hotel as my destination. I entered my chosen time of departure and, in addition to the usual UberX and Uber Black offerings, the app also gave me a new listing for Uber Copter.

For the price of $199.82, the app not only reserved me a helicopter ride from the heliport on the southern tip of Manhattan, but also lined up an UberX car on one side to get me to the heliport as well as a second car to get me from the JFK heliport to the hotel. This was all done completely seamlessly.