{"id":9588,"date":"2014-02-28T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/?p=9588"},"modified":"2020-06-22T16:41:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T20:41:16","slug":"the-future-of-travel-paying-for-flights-via-facebook-and-twitter-klm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/the-future-of-travel-paying-for-flights-via-facebook-and-twitter-klm\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Travel? Paying for flights via Facebook and Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nRecently, Dutch airline <a href=\"http:\/\/www.klm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KLM<\/a> introduced a feature that allows customers to pay for tickets, re-book flights, make seat reservations, and arrange extra baggage using Facebook and Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The process is simple. After a request is made, KLM sends a private message to the flyer on Facebook or Twitter and provides them with a link to select their preferred method of payment. All transactions are processed via private messaging. Once the payment goes through, one of 130 dedicated social media agents send out a confirmation message to the flyer.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, this is not the first time KLM airline made use of social media to enhance consumer experience. In 2012, they launched the \u201cMeet and Sit\u201d programme which allowed passengers to connect with their neighbours or other passenger using LinkedIn.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>What do you think? Does this sound like the future of travel?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<h6>*Image by\u00a0Chris Parypa Photography<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Recently, Dutch airline KLM introduced a feature that allows customers to pay for tickets, re-book flights, make seat reservations, and arrange extra baggage using Facebook and Twitter. The process is simple. After a request is made, KLM sends a private message to the flyer on Facebook or Twitter and provides them with a link [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":9603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":""},"categories":[3543],"tags":[],"modified_by":"Iris Sinilong","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9588"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22143,"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9588\/revisions\/22143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}