Planes that tweet and post Facebook updates

Damian Koh | Oct 20, 2009

This one's for junkies who can't stay off the social-networking grid even for a couple of hours. Lufthansa's MySkyStatus will put your Twitter and Facebook accounts on autopilot while you're in-flight or departing from/arriving at an airport terminal, i.e. it posts updates on your behalf.

You simply pick the carrier you're flying on, select a departure date, key in your flight number/airport codes and choose whether you want to publish to your Twitter or Facebook. Typical updates will look like "kateobriennyc is now flying over Reykjavik, Iceland. Click here to track their progress on MySkyStatus, powered by Lufthansa."

Apparently, the service gets the location details from a flight information database every hour, so your friends can know roughly where you are and if your flight is late, etc. Or worse, you're still in the cabin waiting for the plane to pull away.

There's just one tiny flaw. I recently "booked" the 11.40pm flight from Singapore to Charles de Gaulle (Paris) and there's apparently no way to delete the "booking". So for those of you on my Twitter, you may track my virtual flight across the Pacific. If you're wondering, the service is not the only one of its kind. There's also Twtri.

Via Newlaunches

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