Airline Tests Mood-Based Seating: Smart or Silly?
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2012/06/08 13:00:00
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Any time you buy tickets for a plane flight, unless your family reserves an entire row, you're putting yourself at great risk. We're not talking about the plane going down -- the odds of that happening are absurdly low. But the odds of sitting next to someone you don't want to sit next to are much, much worse. That's why airBaltic is experimenting with a mood-based seating system, to give passengers a chance to narrow down their seating buddies.
According to The New York Daily News, "SeatBuddy" gives passengers four different "flight moods" to choose from: business talk, easy chat, work, and relax. A seating algorithm then takes those choices into account when assigning seats. The program also offers optional detailed matching by age, language, career, interests, etc. It's like a temporary social media profile, just for that flight. Does it sound like something you'd want to try?
According to The New York Daily News, "SeatBuddy" gives passengers four different "flight moods" to choose from: business talk, easy chat, work, and relax. A seating algorithm then takes those choices into account when assigning seats. The program also offers optional detailed matching by age, language, career, interests, etc. It's like a temporary social media profile, just for that flight. Does it sound like something you'd want to try?
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BOOGIE-WOOGIE-MUSIC-MAN-ROC... 2012/06/08 15:15:19Smart
Let me have a window seat in row D please.
This way, Madame.
me and I will be in a better "mood" !
I have never had a problem with anyone on flight prior to that except once at age eight where some bloke sitting behind me began tickling me from the crevices in between the seat and again, had to be moved off and another wanted to put her legs on top of my seat as she wanted to stretch out. I actually got up went to her seat pressed the recliner button and told her enjoy yourself and comforting my grandmother who was on board with me and going home as a new widow.
Fact, no matter how much of precaution you take with regard to seat planning, one has to understand the personality and th...
I have never had a problem with anyone on flight prior to that except once at age eight where some bloke sitting behind me began tickling me from the crevices in between the seat and again, had to be moved off and another wanted to put her legs on top of my seat as she wanted to stretch out. I actually got up went to her seat pressed the recliner button and told her enjoy yourself and comforting my grandmother who was on board with me and going home as a new widow.
Fact, no matter how much of precaution you take with regard to seat planning, one has to understand the personality and the behaviour of the person is not seen irrespective of the moods. These are the elements that determine if you are going to have a safe flight too not just a worrisome co-passenger who talks too much (simple remedy entertain for two minutes and slip my iPod on) although I tend to ask for a seat with no co-passenger by my side as I love to stretch out and I get it, most of the time as I love the window seat and hate being boxed in but do adjust. Always been the case since my first travel alone.