{"id":94608389,"date":"2012-01-11T10:28:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T10:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/a-missed-connection-site-with-an-airplane-twist\/"},"modified":"2023-03-01T08:57:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T08:57:19","slug":"a-missed-connection-site-with-an-airplane-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/a-missed-connection-site-with-an-airplane-twist\/","title":{"rendered":"A Missed Connection Site with an Airplane Twist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did You Make Eye Contact with a Beauty in the Baggage Claim? <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Remember that potential soul mate you made eye contact with or had a brief conversation with on the plane, but you never connected and the love of your life just vanished in the baggage claim?<\/p>\n

OK, there are a lot of hopeless romantics out there, and a new website, WeMetOnAPlane.com, strives to inject some hope into this type of,or similar, encounters.<\/p>\n

Will Scully-Power, a 31-year-old Australian entrepreneur who says he met his girlfriend on a plane last year, created the site.<\/p>\n

The person you are trying to re-connect or connect with doesn\u2019t have to be a love-interest, of course.<\/p>\n

Perhaps you struck up an interesting conversation about an investment tip or job opportunity and just want to continue the dialogue.<\/p>\n

So to use We Met On A Plane you can search the site using your flight information (save those e-ticket confirmations), post an anecdote on the site about the experience, share it on Facebook and\/or Twitter, and sign up to receive email alerts when anyone (perhaps the person you are searching for) comments on your story.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur advanced search algorithm will display search results of all stories from that specific flight that have been shared by other passengers,\u201d the site says. \u201cRecognize a story? Simply post a reply to their story and they will be emailed immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, the site\u2019s challenge is to grow to increase chances of connecting \u2013 if the other party has any desire to.<\/p>\n

But, Scully-Power holds out hope for all that, citing a statistic that 4,400 people per month search Google for \u201cmet on plane.\u201d<\/p>\n

Keep hope alive.<\/p>\n

Surely, travel is getting more social and We Met On A Plane is a part of it all.<\/p>\n

Malaysian Airlines<\/a><\/strong> already has a limited program to enable passengers to select seatmates on flights using Facebook, and KLM<\/a><\/strong> is in the midst of developing a similar program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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