WAYN.com (Where are you now?), the UK’s largest growing lifestyle and travel networking community, has launched a new flight alert and weather update service for members keeping them up to date via their mobile phone on departure day.

After logging a new trip, users opt to receive confirmation of their flight number and flight times on the day of travel, as well as information on boarding times, departure gates and whether their flight is delayed. And to help members know what to pack and to help them plan their itinerary, an additional opt-in service provides members with daily weather updates in the lead up to and during their trip.

Currently 30% of UK scheduled flights suffer a delay of more than 15 minutes*, leaving passengers with nothing to do but wait. Flight status alerts can give control back to the passenger as to how they spend that time. “Mobile is an excellent way of reaching passengers on their departure day to update them on the status of their flight. It can save wasted hours standing in a departure lounge if a flight is unexpectedly delayed.” comments Matt Jerwood, director of business development at WAYN.com.

“A few hours before the scheduled departure passengers receive an SMS message confirming the flight time. Approximately 30 minutes before departure a reminder of flight details and boarding information is sent. The service can also provide travellers with two exclusive location specific retail offers depending on where they are flying from.” Mantic Point, who provide white-label mobile concierge services to major travel industry brands, deliver the service. Mike Atherton, Managing Director of Mantic Point commented: “With these services WAYN members get their very own personal travel assistant, so keeping on top of their travel plans is now as simple as checking a text message.” WAYN.com add the flight status alert and weather updates to their portfolio of travel tools, which now include travel insurance, global SIM card, international SMS bundles and a mobile translator.

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*Sourced from http://www.flightontime.info/index.html - an average of 30% scheduled flights are delayed by more then 15 minutes and nearly 40% of charter flights are delayed by over 15 minutes.

For more information please contact:

Annika Erskine
+44 (0) 7336 8088
Annika.erskine@wayn.com

About www.wayn.com
WAYN.com (Where Are You Now?) is the world's largest travel and lifestyle focused social networking community website. The site operates in 193 countries and membership has grown from 45,000 users in March 2005 to over 14 million today. WAYN.com allows its members to keep track of their friends' whereabouts and make new friends based on where they are now, where they have been and where they’re going. Top services on WAYN.com include travel guide and trip planning tools, unlimited photo and video storage; interaction tools such as email, SMS and instant messenger, forums and travel related tools and products.

About Mantic Point www.manticpoint.com
Mantic Point provides white-label, mobile concierge services for leading travel brands. We help travel brands to connect with their customers when they're travelling ... creating a mobile dialogue that keeps travellers informed with content including flight updates, traffic updates, weather forecasts, snow reports, etc. We provide this information by SMS, or through a personalised, mobile web-site. Our expertise is understanding each traveller's profile to offer them the most relevant mobile content for their needs. With relevant content, travellers get a mobile experience they value and travel brands generate incremental ancillary revenue.