{"id":19972,"date":"2014-05-13T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/saa-gets-social-with-new-check-in-feature\/"},"modified":"2014-05-13T14:50:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T14:50:00","slug":"saa-gets-social-with-new-check-in-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2014\/05\/saa-gets-social-with-new-check-in-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"SAA gets social with new check-in feature"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Africa\u2019s leading airline, South African Airways (SAA), has announced a new online check-in feature called Social Check-In. According to Tim Clyde-Smith, SAA\u2019s Country Manager for Australasia, the new Social Seat Selector allows customers to use their Facebook details to help choose who they want to sit next to on their next flight. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a new innovation from SAA and helps customers select who they want to sit next to on their next flight with us,\u201d Tim said this week. <\/p>\n

\u201cNow there\u2019s no excuse to be bored. Customers can spice it up by selecting anyone who also uses the feature and have shared their own details,\u201d Tim said. <\/p>\n

Only available to those checking in online, all customers need to do is follow these easy steps: <\/p>\n

\u2022 Check in online on flysaa.com<\/a> or our mobi site m.flysaa.com<\/a> and input flight details.
\u2022 Simply share their Facebook details while checking in.
\u2022 Select profile details they want to share with other passengers and add travel details. <\/p>\n

Next, a seat map will show: <\/p>\n

\u2022 Other customer profile details.
\u2022 The seats they have chosen.
\u2022 Available seats allowing customers to select seats next to people with the same interests or going to the same events. <\/p>\n

\u201cSocial Check-In is available for both flights within South Africa and all international flights including our daily service from Perth. Customers need to check in from 24 hours before their flight and not less than 90 minutes for domestic flights in South Africa or 2 hours for an international flight. After that, customers won\u2019t be able to view other passengers\u2019 profiles or change their seat,\u201d Tim said. <\/p>\n

Profile and Privacy <\/p>\n

It is up to you how much information you share about yourself. You can either show more or less details. You can even remove your details entirely. <\/p>\n

SAA won\u2019t use profile details for any other purpose than Social Check-In nor will it share details with any third parties. The full Terms and Conditions<\/a> for Social Check-In are on this link. <\/p>\n

\u201cWith thousands of Aussies travelling to Africa for business or pleasure, we\u2019re sure that our new Social Check-In feature will appeal to them before they board their next SAA flight,\u201d Tim concluded.
For more information on SAA flights please visit www.flysaa.com.au<\/a> or call 1300 435 972 . <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa\u2019s leading airline, South African Airways (SAA), has announced a new online check-in feature called Social Check-In. According to Tim Clyde-Smith, SAA\u2019s Country Manager for Australasia, the new Social Seat Selector allows customers to use their Facebook details to help choose who they want to sit next to on their next flight. \u201cThis is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}