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71% of Airlines See Mobile as the Future of Airline Payments

The Realtime Report

Mobile and social media will be a focus for airlines over the next few years, according to a recent survey from airline payment processing company WorldPay. A whopping 83% of airlines believe that improvement and deployment of new payment technology is a major business priority. photo: Wikipedia Commons.

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Ryanair’s Social Media Strategy: Driving Engagement With Humour

Keyhole.co

Thanks to its relentless perseverance and budget pricing model, the brand is now Ireland’s biggest airline and operates over 500 planes. LinkedIn: 683K TikTok: 2.1 Their social media accounts have a mix of beautiful destinations with idyllic travel images on one hand and hilarious memes and jokes on the other. Instagram: 1.3

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Virgin America Launches First In-Flight Social Network With #PlanePitch Twitter Contest

The Realtime Report

The ability to access your social networks while in the air is nothing new; many airlines offer in-flight WiFi (for a price) within the US. Users access the network by downloading Here on Biz iOS mobile app and registering a new account using their LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter profile. Million Twitter Sweepstakes.

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7 ways to use social media for market research

Sprout Social

They’re the best airline, even in crisis mode! Travelers, for example, may have a favorite airline and are eager to share what makes them a frequent flier of one airline over another. Travelers, for example, may have a favorite airline and are eager to share what makes them a frequent flier of one airline over another.

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KLM’s Social Flight of Fancy

Convince & Convert

We also do a fair amount of work in the travel industry and so when we saw a series of recent blog posts from Dutch airline KLM detailing its social media strategy we could not pass up the opportunity to review it here. For a travel brand these represent the three most important areas of the business impacted by social.

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Be Here Now Marketing: How United Airlines Can Take Advantage of.

Bare Feet Studios

Here’s a real life example with several free ideas I have for United Airlines , or any airline really. The Case of the Cancelled Flight Shane and I were booked to travel from DTW to ORD to LAX to HNL on Sunday, June 29th. UA was willing to rebook us on American Airlines, for a flight at 8 p.m.

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You Are The Company That You Keep

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We have Facebook , LinkedIn , Twitter , YouTube and more where we are sharing anything and everything that we're up to. This past week, two of their executives got drunk on a flight, allegedly became belligerent, were restrained by airline staff and passengers, forced the flight to land and the story just keeps on getting uglier.

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