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If you’ve been dreaming of joining the Mile High Club, this could be your shot. A new Tinder-esque dating app called AirDates promises to be the greatest in-flight entertainment since SkyMall.

AirDates, as the name suggests, is designed specifically for travelers looking to make love connections while they fly. The app is only in beta, but it’s caused quite a stir since appearing at the Disrupt London conference in Decemeber.

Users upload their travel itineraries prior to boarding to find other travelers on the same route. The app then scans your surroundings for fellow passengers who match your preferences. You can choose to be visible or remain hidden to other users (either way, you’ll be able to chat).

There’s only so much you can learn from carefully curated photos and sparsely filled out profiles. Plenty stretch the truth, resulting in more disappointing first dates than we’d care to try to count. Spin the Bottle, a new video dating app, hopes to solve the problem by skipping straight to actual eye contact.

"With so many 'swipe left, swipe right' dating apps out there right now, we wanted a way to take people beyond the often misleading, perfectly manicured profile pictures and get them right to face time," said Matthew Cohen, CEO and co-founder of Spin Labs, the company behind Spin the Bottle. "Looking into someone's eyes and having a conversation... can be much more revealing than reading a list of interests and seeing a gallery of heavily edited, perfectly filtered selfies."

A new take on the classic party game, Spin the Bottle reimagines the online dating experience with 30 second live video speed dates. The premise is simple: a player gives the bottle their best spin with a swipe, and when it stops, they begin a 30 second video chat date with their match. If they're feeling a spark, they can tap an icon to give their date a kiss and wait for one in return. Two kisses and it's a match.

Christian Mingle is having a sale on subscriptions. The sale starts January 26th and runs to January 29th, 2017. During this time you will be able to receive 30% off a 3 month and 6 month subscription. No coupon is required during this promotion.

Christian Mingle has been matching singles since 1996 and since then has become one of the largest online dating services for Christians. The Christian Mingle website is easy to use and has all the features you need to find your ideal date. A dating app is also available for those of you who wish to access the service from a smart phone. Along with the regular profile questions Christian Mingle also includes faith specific questions about what religion denomination you are and what your current church activity is.

For more information about this popular dating service please read our review of Christian Mingle.

Tinder might have gotten a lot of action in 2016, but according to a recent article in The Washington Post, niche dating apps are poised to get more attention this year.

Research from online dating sites and apps have shown that the biggest increase in memberships and activity occur from New Year’s Day through Valentine’s Day. It’s the time when the most people are looking for love, or at least a few dates. Traditionally, people have gravitated to the bigger sites like Tinder or Match in the hopes of having the widest pool of daters to choose from. But this year, people are looking for new ways to connect.

Part of the problem according to the Post is that dating apps don’t necessarily lead to users getting more dates. It’s easy to swipe endlessly, but that doesn’t seem to translate to meeting in real life. In the past year, poor and flaky dating behavior has left a lot to be desired, and daters are increasingly frustrated.

JDate is currently having a sale on 3 and 6 month subscriptions. The sale starts January 26th and runs to January 29th, 2017 and gives you up to 30% off. No coupon is required for this promotion.

JDate is a popular online dating service for Jewish singles which has been in operation since the late 90s. Thousands of members are online at any one time looking for a match making it very easy when you are on the service to find local Jewish people to date in your neighbourhood. When you visit Jdate.com you can create a membership for free. Once you have filled out your profile you can then go ahead and search for your ideal match using a number of different criteria you can choose from. If you spot any profile you like in the results, you can go ahead and view their full profile and photos. If you want to contact the member you would then have to purchase a subscription for a low monthly fee.

For more information about this popular Jewish dating service please read our review of JDate.

A Social Game With Dating?

Think Tinder is grueling? A new app promises an even more vicious take on mobile dating.

Already a source of controversy, FMK turns the classic boredom-busting game ‘F*ck, Marry, Kill’ into the newest way to find a mate (or, at the very least, kill some time). FMK presents users with three photos and three blunt choices:

• F*ck: Perfect for a one night stand, but you’d only introduce them to your parents if you were trying to piss them off.
• Marry: The complete package of looks and personality. Someone with serious long-term potential.
• Kill: Not even if you were the only two survivors of a zombie apocalypse. In fact, you’d rather hookup with a zombie.