[Travelandtourism] January Travel and Tourism Board Meeting And Social Flights Presentation

[cheryl echevarria]

Good morning all:
I don't know if this was sent via Peter or Mary, I want to thank you for posting, but you need to make a few changes.
Since we are expecting many people on the call, I am asking those that are interested to please e-mail me Cheryl Echevarria who is going to moderate the questions, and hopefully, we will have a lot for Matt.
I will have my e-mail box opened, also if you want to skype me a question, just send it to my e-mail cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com or my skype name is angeldn3.  Since I am going to be on the phone, I cannot pick up the phone for call ins.
So if you can possible update your message to whomever is coming would be wonderful.
I have already posted an e-mail to the Writer's Division, and I will do this later for the rest of my contacts.
The more the merrier, but we want this in a controlled environment, also please remember to mute yourselves should you not be asking a question.
Thank you again for posting this. 
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From: braille at satx.rr.com
To: travelandtourism at nfbnet.org
CC: matt.slosky at socialflights.com; cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com
Subject: January Travel and Tourism Board Meeting And Social Flights Presentation
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 21:48:36 -0600



Happy New Year Everyone,                  On January 10, 2012 the National Federation of the Blind Travel and Tourism Division will hold its January Board Meeting at 8:00 Eastern, 7:00 Central, 6:00 Mountain, and 5:00 Pacific Time. . We will have as our special guest Matt Sloskey, Chief Executive Officer of http://www.socialflights.com. This company is seeking to introduce business and leisure travelers tired of scheduled air travel to flying on private aircraft by utilizing social media such as facebook.com.  Matt will share with conference participants information about the founding of SocialFlights.com, how they are using social media to enable individuals to fly on private jets for roughly the cost of flying on an airline, and will discuss with us how we can use the Social Flights Model to help members and other interested individuals attend NFB state and national events as well as personal travel needs.                 So we can give Matt our full attention and to afford participants plenty of time for discussion and to ask questions Matt’s presentation will be the only agenda item. To peak your interest in private air charter watch the list for posts serving as a “Build-UP” to Tuesday night’s presentation. They will be kept to a minimum to avoid excess clutter in your inbox. The call-in information for those wishing to participate is as follows: The call in number is 1-805-360-1000 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting            1-805-360-1000      end_of_the_skype_highlighting this is not a toll free number once you get the recording you will be asked to put in your participant access code which is 871517#.                 For further information please contact Cheryl Evhevarria, President of the National Federation of the Blind Travel and Tourism Division at: cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com                 If you have questions about private air charter in general, the utilization of social media in the airline industry and how blind persons can benefit by flying privately join us on January 10, 2012 for this exciting presentation or to learn about the next frontier in air travel! We look forward to your participation. Peter Donahue