Serving 60 million passengers a year, Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) has topped a new Facebook list as the “most social airport” in the world. Facebook named LAX as the most popular airport people “checked into” between August and November this year.
Ok with announcing their travel plans to online friends, American passengers are leading the “checking in” trend – the Facebook process which lets their friends know where they are in the world.
Twenty of Facebook’s 25 “most social airports” are located in the U.S., and include the busiest airport in the world, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, in second place, followed by Chicago O’Hare, San Francisco International Airport, and Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.
Also making it into the top 20 are London Heathrow Airport, Thailand’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport and Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.
According to LAX, its Facebook and Twitter pages provide passengers and the general public with information on flight delays, weather conditions, travel tips, construction news, and acts as a platform for comments and questions.
Many airports offer online services to passengers, who have quickly adopted the new technologies to facilitate travel from city to city.