Now Boarding! » Travel Industry http://now.boarding.fr/en A blog somewhere between earth and sky Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:03:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 How Airlines Use Twitter http://now.boarding.fr/en/post/how-airlines-use-twitter/ http://now.boarding.fr/en/post/how-airlines-use-twitter/#comments Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:59:58 +0000 Myriam http://now.boarding.fr/en/?p=383 While some airlines are using Twitter as an extension of their customer service efforts, others are still not listening…

Kudos to Troy Thompson for these stats.

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It also lists the country codes/registration informations of an aircraft.

  • You want to know where the nicely colored aircraft comes from? Look at the country codes of FlightCode.
  • You want to look where on your route the fuel stop is, but you only have shortcuts on your tickets? Look at the IATA airport codes in FlightCode.
  • You like to know what the shortcuts on your luggage labels tell you? Or you just want to look in the FlightCode database when you don’t have internet access during the flight?

Oh, you want to find stranded travelers?

Flight Code

Get FlightCode at the AppStore 1,99 usd /1,59 euro

Use Boarding: look at your airport code in FlightCode, include it in a tweet beginning with #boarding and voilà!
You’ll get a reply with the list of the other users in the same airport in the last hours.

Boarding

Get stranded travelers at Boarding for free ;-)

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The challenge of current world economic conditions is set to drive uptake of video telepresence in the next three years, with the travel industry losing out, according to Gartner Inc.

Gartner analysts predict that high-definition based video meeting solutions will replace 2.1 million airline seats annually, costing the travel and hospitality industry US$3.5 billion per year.

In the meantime, Second Life should not have any impact on travel industry. Amazing, huh? :-D

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