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as a frequent long distance flyer: what an awful idea. flying is not a social experience, it is not a bar. having someone next to you trying to sell crap - wit
by pinaceae 15y ago
as a frequent long distance flyer: what an awful idea. flying is not a social experience, it is not a bar.
having someone next to you trying to sell crap - with no physical escape for hours? oh yeah. in other contexts i am walking away.
klm is doing a lot of marketing with social media. they have a pretty famous video on usage of twitter.
- coryl 15y agoMy first thoughts too. Actually what I saw in my head was me sitting beside a couple loud talkers conversing about an industry I don't care about.
- daveman692 15y agoIt's a bar on Virgin Atlantic :)
- malandrew 15y agoIf you have no control over who might sit next you you I agree. However imagine if you were flying NYC-SF and could find out who were entrepreneurs, software engineers or designers on you flight and talk shop for a couple of hours. The key issue is discovering if the interest is mutual. It's not unsolvable. Merely intractable.
- westiseast 15y agopersonally I agree with you - I would probably be scanning that list for someone who doesn't want to talk, isn't fat and doesn't have a golfball bladder. However, a friend of mine would probably love this. He's constantly traveling for work and always looking for people to talk to (in his industry/sphere of interests) because it's so boring. There's plenty of travelling salesmen types out there who want this, so why not let them sit together :)