Where the heck are you? - 'JetBlue Point of View'

From 35,000 feet, the world down there can be confusing. Where the heck are you? Global positioning satellites know, and travelers will soon know too thanks to discount airline JetBlue’s “Point of View” service. The seat-back TV feature comes courtesy of collaboration with Google.

The system gives you location, speed, and altitude, all the better to track your trip. International fliers have been familiar with this kind of thing for years, and some major airlines use it on their domestic routes too.

To kick off the service, the discount airline is giving away ten pairs of round-trip tickets to any of the 54 places it flies on Planet Earth, but you've got to earn it. Book a JetBlue flight (a window seat would work) and point your camera outside. Take a picture, a really nifty picture, and enter it in the contest. The best ten win.

Some fine print: take the photograph on any JetBlue flight scheduled between now and September 3. Go to www.jetblue.com/google to enter your snapshot electronically. One photo per e-mail address is allowed, and be sure to include the date you flew, the city from which you left, and where you were going. Oh yeah, tell JetBlue approximately where you were when you took the picture.

The discount airline will post customer photos to a Google Maps mash-up, where fliers can vote on their favorites.

Something tells us there are going to be a bunch of photographs of sunsets submitted.

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