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Delta Air Lines opens 'ticket window' on Facebook

By | August 13, 2010, 9:26am PDT

Summary: It’s getting pretty close to the day when you’ll be able to do just about anything on Facebook. Now you can even book plane tickets on Delta Air Lines on the social networking hub.

It’s getting pretty close to the day when you’ll be able to do just about anything on Facebook. Now you can even book plane tickets with Delta Air Lines on the social networking hub.

The “ticket window” is open to all of Facebook’s approximately 500 million members on the airline’s Facebook page. Users can click on the “Book A Trip” tab at the top, and the rest is intuitive.

Apparently Delta isn’t planning to stop there as the airline will eventually allow for booking tickets through online banner advertisements. To continue the social media love, the airline will also release an iPhone app for checking into and monitoring flights, among other things, but no release date was given yet.

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good idea about facebook
gavin.chan 2nd Oct
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RE: Delta Air Lines opens 'ticket window' on Facebook
Loverock Davidson 13th Aug 2010
I can't see any negatives to it as long as it doesn't post onto your wall that you just bought tickets for xx trip at yy price or the date of the tickets.
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Sure...why not?
SonofaSailor 13th Aug 2010
Given Facebook's track record thus far regarding security and the privacy of it's users.

The city of New York should be ecstatic about this.
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RE: Delta Air Lines opens 'ticket window' on Facebook
KristinaJacobson 16th Sep 2010
Other booking engine for Facebook... like Delta Airlines last month... and now, what's next?
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Best Western Blunsdon uses Facebook to sell and book hotel rooms

Best Western Blunsdon has decided to sell hotel rooms directly through Facebook , the well known international hotel will allow guest to use their favourite social media website to arrange their travel plans.

This new applications is called ?FaceBooking Engine? and can be found on Best Western Blunsdon's Facebook page. It has been develop by protel hotelsoftware and it will be available for other hotels very soon.

It is now possible to complete an entire booking straight from Best Western Blunsdon's Facebook page and without leaving Facebook or having to visit any other website.
Users and guests should go to the new "Booking" tab on Facebook, if they are planning to book a room in the social network plataform.

The application has been developed by protel hotelsoftware and it gives the opportunity to hotels to intensify its online marketing strategy integrating a booking engine in the most powerful social platform.

The software company has announced that the app will be integrated in other fan pages in the next weeks and Facebook will become very soon a new distribution channel for the tourism sector, as we have seen some weeks ago the first airline company, Delta, integrating a booking engine in its Facebook fan page.

http://www.facebook.com/BestWesternBlunsdon
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good idea about facebook
gavin.chan 2nd Oct
Great post, thanks for sharing. Do you have any apple products? We supply kinds of apple accessories. Buy ipad leather cases and covers from dealingway.com at wholesale price.2wItl

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