JetBlue airline seatback Google Maps and photo contest

JetBlue Airways Corporation (Nasdaq:JBLU) today announces a partnership with Google Maps to provide customers with a real-time flight tracking channel on its signature seatback televisions to map the aircraft's route. To celebrate, the low-fare, high-frills airline is launching a "JetBlue Point of View" photo contest(a), inviting customers to share their own summer travel routes on a Google Maps mash-up on www.jetblue.com/google

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The moving map feature will be located on channel 13 of JetBlue's in-seat satellite television system, provided by LiveTV. In addition to in-flight tracking, customers can also refer their friends, family and loved ones to www.jetblue.com, where their flights can be tracked live using Google's technology online, including the flight's estimated departure and arrival times.

investor.jetblue.com - JetBlue Airways Announces Partnership With Google Maps to Provide Real-Time Flight Tracking Feature

how to enter:

       1. Take photos from the window of any JetBlue flight (when advised by your Inflight Crew that it’s okay to use electronic devices) between June 4 and September 3 [2007]. Please amateur photographers only

(residents of the continental US only)

I always feel a bit awkward taking photos through my airplane window, like I'm breaking some rule - this is the first time I've heard of an airline specifically requesting it.  I'd really like to capture some GPS tracks on a plane as well, but I always imagine trying to explain to the airplane staff something like "I'm holding this small plastic box with flashing LEDs up to the fragile window of the plane to communicate with satellites in order to determine our exact position" and I can never come up with a scenario in which it turns out well.

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