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Love is in the Air

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//  by Lisa 9 Comments

I have an idea to combine a dating service with airline seat booking. Do you see where I’m going with this?

Flyin' High
Flyin’ High

When choosing seats instead of just being boring and choosing things like ‘aisle’ or ‘window’, you would have to enter things about your sexual orientation, your age, your hobbies and interests (even if one of those is perhaps a desire to join the mile-high club). This way, potential dates might sit on either side of you… and you have the whole flight to get to know one another… with nowhere else to go… for 7 hours.

Okay, maybe it’s not such a good idea. But I think it could work. And, of course, the airlines would only charge an extra $25 per seat for this service. And maybe if you get married – you can get a free roundtrip ticket to your honeymoon destination. C’mon Easy Jet, Ryannair, Virgin, or Jet Blue…seems like something right up your alley.

Bonus Free Random airline flying tips:

  • Ask for the exit row: I always do. I don’t care if I’m 5’4″, first come, first served buddy.
  • When traveling as a couple in a 3 seat configuration, book the window and aisle seat. A single person will rarely book the middle seat unless the flight is full-then you can just move together if necessary.
  • www.seatguru.com – A great site with graphic seating charts of most airlines’ jets and with ratings and tips to help you pick the best seat.
  • Favorite Flight Booking Sites (they don’t charge fees – like Orbitz & Expedia – and they are aggregator sites meaning they look at all the airlines and other sites for you):
    • www.kayak.com
    • www.sidestep.com
    • www.letmebook.com

    Within Europe:

    • www.attitudetravel.com/lowcostairlines/europe – Great listing of dozens of Europe’s low cost airlines
    • www.skyscanner.net – Great cross referencing site showing a bar graph with dates and prices so you can pick the best/cheapest day/flight.
    • www.whichbudget.com
  • After checking these sites, ALWAYS go to the actual airlines’ website and check the cost – oftentimes the cheapest is there.

If you have any airline tips, please leave a comment and share. Thank you!

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Lisa Lubin is an established travel/food writer and photographer, three-time Emmy® award-winning TV producer, video consultant, and travel industry expert. After more than a decade in broadcast television she took a sabbatical, which turned into three years traveling around the world. She created this blog in 2006. Lisa also owns LLmedia, a media & video consulting business. Her writing and photography has been published by American Way, Hemispheres, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, West Jet Magazine, Scandinavian Traveler, Orbitz, and Luxury Las Vegas. Her book, The Ultimate Travel Tips: Essential Advice for Your Adventures, is available on Amazon.

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  1. Choupichat

    March 17, 2009 at 6:26 pm

    That's sound good, I live in Europe and I use Skyscanner and Ryanair, I'm just looking for some low cost in australia to go around and the same for Brazil…if you know some low cost 😉 that's great !!

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  2. Michael

    March 19, 2009 at 3:03 am

    Brilliant! But it might not be so good for global warming. I'm not trying to make a pun, but we might people flying to nowhere just to get a date.

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  3. Adil Zafar

    March 19, 2009 at 3:37 am

    Cool idea :). It seems similar to airtroductions.com concept, except they match people both for business and pleasure. Another idea could be to allow passengers to play network games with each other.

    Great minds think alike.

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  4. The Travel Tart

    March 19, 2009 at 1:41 pm

    I like the 'flight seat date' concept! I think you'd either meet the person of your dreams or the person of your worst nightmares!

    Reply
  5. nomadicmatt

    March 25, 2009 at 7:30 pm

    that is a good second tip about booking the seats apart.

    Reply
  6. llworldtour

    March 31, 2009 at 7:11 am

    In the "no new ideas" file…here it is…already out there:
    http://www.triplife.com/

    Reply
  7. Tudor Bran

    April 1, 2009 at 10:19 pm

    haha, great post 🙂

    just imagine you get a seat close to one of the ugliest or boring woman you've ever seen. 7 hours of hell :))

    Reply

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