Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Flying Meets Facebook

Just when you thought that an airplane might be the best place to get away from it all and truly unconnect in our highly-connected world, KLM has introduced "Meet and Seat", a service that links passengers' Facebook or LinkedIn accounts to the seating plan of a flight.  You can now see who will be on your flight, and you can then choose to sit beside someone more interesting than yourself.  Thankfully, I don't have a Facebook page and wouldn't share my Linked In profile in the hopes of getting a better seat mate.  Click on the link below, then click on the diagram of the airplane and a short video will run.  Sure looks like a dating service to me!

http://www.klm.com/travel/ca_en/prepare_for_travel/on_board/Your_seat_on_board/meet_and_seat.htm