Do you often find yourself taking those boring flights alone? Or you wish that maybe you had a friend or maybe even an acquaintance for company during the flight hours.
Well then it might be soon a reality if KLM Royal Dutch Airlines’ “Meet & Seat” takes off. Meet & Seat is a social seating tool which aims to find air passengers friends, acquaintances or people with common friends to travel together using social tools like Facebook and LinkedIn (but not twitter).
This service will be opt-in only and might require the consent of both parties to be seated together. Interestingly, this service opens up a plethora of possibilities, in-flight dating being one of those.
Though KLM isn’t exactly the first airlines to make use of such a service with Malaysian Airlines having already implemented a similar service wherein passengers can check for friends travelling in the same flight on the airlines Facebook page.
Apparently the idea is not truly new as startups like planely offer you to connect with other planely fliers once you share your flight details with them. Although the idea seems appealing enough, it wasn’t exactly 5 years back when a startup named Air Troductions tried the same and failed in 2006.
Let’s hope KLM have some better ideas up their sleeves to make social seating work this time around.
