Those colorful puppets on display in Terminal A – West at Philadelphia International Airport are from Spiral Q, the Philadelphia puppet theater well-known for the large-scale, wearable handmade puppets used to gain public awareness of important community issues.

On February 3rd, KLM launched its Meet & Seat program, which allows passenger to choose a seat based on who else is on their flight. The program makes use of Facebook and LinkedIn and was initially only available on flights to and from San Francisco, New York and São Paulo. Now the program has been expanded to ten additional destinations: Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles, Toronto, Johannesburg, Cape Town and Nairobi.

Willing to give it a try?

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