ANA - Flight Connections

ANA - Flight Connections

All Nippon Airways has launched Flight Connections , a platform to help business travelers turn their online connections into face-to-face meetings.

Visitors to the Flight Connections website are asked to log in with their LinkedIn profile. The platform then creates a personalized ‘flight map’ visualization of the user’s LinkedIn network with ANA flight information overlaid in order to show users how they can easily connect with their business relationships in Asia. Visitors can also explore flight options to their LinkedIn network throughout Asia.

To show the ex per ience in ac tion, ANA has partnered with LinkedIn influencer and TED speaker, Nancy Lublin – Founder of DoSomething.org and creator of Dress for Success – who shared her journey to Asia in ANA Business Class to meet with her own business contact and documented her experience on LinkedIn.

Says Yuji Hirako, SVP The Americas at ANA,

As the number of business travelers and tourists coming to Japan from the U.S. continues to grow, we wanted to create an innovative way to visually map the connections our passengers have and show them how convenient it is to visit on an ANA flight. Our hope is that Flight Connections will spur the business community on both sides of the Pacific to visit each other more often and forge an even stronger bond for the benefit of both.

To encourage people to visit the Flight Connections site during the launch period, ANA runs a sweepstakes until April 13 where five U.S. residents can win a business class roundtrip ticket to any ANA destination in Asia.