Via Wired
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The lottery of who you sit next to on an airline flight can make travel interesting, or unbearable. Recognizing that the experience of its passengers can be greatly influenced by the people sitting next to them, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is introducing ‘Meet & Seat.’ The service will allow passengers to choose who they sit next to based on their social media profiles.
The service will be available to everybody and both passengers must choose to take part in the service in order to pick your fellow passenger. Those who enjoy simply putting on their headphones and enjoying a movie on their laptop – alone – can just avoid the experiment altogether according to the International Business Times.
The newspaper naturally discusses the match making potential of KLM’s service. According to the IBT, a recent poll showed a third of passengers surveyed said they later met with a fellow passenger after a flight.
Everybody’s favorite news analysis animators over at Next Media Animation in Taiwan were a bit more blunt. Their description of how KLM’s new service might work doesn’t include waiting for the airplane to land.