Track Lufthansa plane flights (and your friends) via Twitter

Dan Thornton | October 13, 2009

I remember suggesting something along these lines a while back to a friend – so it’s great to see you can now track commercial flights via Twitter and Facebook social networks.

Lufthansa has launched MySkyStatus which automatically posts the current position of your flight to Twitter or Facebook. Aside from the vicarious thrill of following people on their travels, it has a definite practical application if flights are delayed, for example. And that could mean potentially skipping waiting times of several hours, particularly in winter when clearing snow can definitely affect timetables.

Updates are posted around once an hour, which could mean 20+ tweets on a long-haul flight.

Updates simply state that someone ‘ is flying over xxxx,xxxx in Geramny on Lufthansa’

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    I already know about this twitter and facebook in the sky thing hahaha, LastMinuteTravel was the first one to tell me about it. We are a regular customer of last minute travel guide.

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    Yeah, i heard already about the MySkyStatus. It's just like ArrivedOK. It can save time money for the travelers to inform their love ones when they arrived in one place or in their destination. Using the MySkyStatus and ArrivedOk is just a click and all the contacts will know about their status.

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    Great thing that Lufthansa is now connected to MySkyStatus so people can track their flights via twitter and Facebook. This can really make them easier to track their friends during travel.

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    Twitter is quite useful and convenient for tracking and finding these news. I always use it and also connected it to my mobile. Anyways nice post.

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