Seat Alerts Automatically Monitors Airline Carriers Worldwide and Notifies Passengers When Occupied Seats Become Available.
(PRWEB) August 31, 2011
ExpertFlyer.com®, the premier air travel information website, announced that its exclusive Seat Alerts® feature has won the "Traveler Comfort" category in the annual Business Traveler Innovation Awards competition sponsored by the GBTA and The Wall Street Journal. The competition identifies and honors products, services, and ideas that help make business travel easier and more productive.
Chris Lopinto, President and co-founder of ExpertFlyer, presented a live demonstration of Seat Alerts during the Global Business Travel Association's (GBTA) annual conference held in Denver, Colorado last week.
"We are very happy that business travelers see the value in Seat Alerts and the service is providing them with a better experience each time they travel," said Chris Lopinto. "Since January, we have helped travelers find more than 4,000 seats that were previously occupied at the time of booking, with many moving out of middle seats and into a preferred aisle or window."
How it Works
Today, securing seating assignments for flights requires passengers to have a ticket and restricts seat selection to only unoccupied seats. Passengers hoping to find a different seat would typically wait until check-in at the airport and hope a more desirable seat is available. ExpertFlyer's Seat Alerts changes all that.
Seat Alerts now allows ticketed and non-ticketed passengers to set up an automatic alert that notifies them when occupied seats become available. Using ExpertFlyer's Seat Alerts feature, passengers can select "Any Aisle" or "Any Window" and will automatically be notified by email when any aisle or window seat becomes available on selected flights. In addition, passengers can identify an unlimited number of specific seats by selecting desired -- but currently occupied -- seats such as Exit Row and Bulkhead seats or if you want to sit with business associates, friends or family on the same flight, for example. In addition, Seat Alerts provides the option of selecting "Premium" seats when setting up an alert. This designation automatically allows ExpertFlyer subscribers with Elite status to be notified when seats specifically reserved for them become available.
Subscribers to ExpertFlyer's Premium service currently enjoy the benefits of Flight Alerts, the company's automated search engine for finding Award and Upgrade tickets. Now, with the added service of Seat Alerts, subscribers will have the benefit and added convenience of viewing both services simultaneously. When a Flight Alert and a Seat Alert are requested on the same flight, both queries will appear on a single screen for easier management of travel requests and itineraries.
About ExpertFlyer.com
ExpertFlyer.com was conceived and created by an eclectic team consisting of a veteran elite tier frequent flyer, an airline captain and corporate travel manager, and information technology professionals to deliver a 24/7 real time powerful air travel information service. The company provides its subscribers and corporate travel managers alike with a complete, concise and efficient way to access the ever-changing details of worldwide air travel information. For more information, please visit http://www.expertflyer.com.
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