Long layovers
Three hours in a hub. Someone you used to work with is between flights too. A coffee, a catch-up, a 45-minute conversation that beats the lounge.
Quick answer. An airport networking app shows you which people you already know are passing through the same airport at the same time. apreet does this by reading flight events from your calendar, determining departure and arrival airports, and overlaying that against other apreet users in your address book.
The frequent-flyer math
If you fly through a major hub more than twice a month, you almost certainly cross paths with people you know, without ever realizing it. Two of your former colleagues live in the city, three more have a layover that overlaps with yours, an old client is on the same connecting flight. None of you knows the others are there.
The hub is one of the densest, lowest-friction networking opportunities you have. It is also the most consistently wasted.
How apreet does airport networking
In short, apreet reads the airports off your flight events and overlays them against the people in your address book, so you each see when you land in the same terminal on the same day. See the full breakdown on how apreet works.
Read the longer breakdown on the itinerary matching page.
What the app does not do
apreet is not a "discover strangers near me" tool. It does not broadcast your live location publicly, does not show you people you've never been in contact with, and does not turn the airport into a swiping app. It is a layer on top of the people you already know.
