New Application Allows Using Social Media for Seating

It was quite common for the fliers to make use of social media resources to seek views, tips, suggestions, feedback and review of friends and contacts for planning your travel better. Similarly, there have been many useful mobile applications which have been developed for making your travel easier. There are the GPS route finders, trip planners, linguistic aids and many other applications which can be helpful for meeting your travel needs. The intervention of technology and social media has added altogether different dimension to your travel. Right from flight searches and flight booking to getting information on almost anything that you need, technology and social media have impacted the way you travel.

Social Media and Airplane Seating

Social media is also being used by the airlines in an innovative way. There has been development of applications which allow the passengers to utilize their social media profiles (such as Facebook and LinkedIn) to get seated to next to their friends or with someone who shares common interests. The procedure of using the application is quite simple as it involves logging into your social media profiles from the airlines website and then specifying your interests and flight details. The application will search for any person in your network of friends who shares same interests and find out whether that person is also flying on the same flight. If you do find any such person, you can opt for seating next to him or her. This innovative application shows the picture of the person who is on same flight and his or her seat number. You can also check the seat map of airplane and choose your preferred seat.

So, social media resources can be used for preferred seating after identifying whether any friend is travelling on same flight or not. Therefore, there would no longer be surprises to find that your friend was travelling on the same flight. You would know it in advance when you do booking of flight tickets and use the application to search for friends flying on same flight.

While this application gives users a good way of utilizing their in-flight time by engaging in conversation, it will also help airlines to get more customers since passengers are likely to flock to the airline which uses this application.