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Rip the Band-Aid Off Communication

ShepHyken

It also falls under leadership and management. The topic is communication and transparency. He announced to the passengers exactly what had happened and what the airline would do about it, which was to get everyone and their bags off the plane and onto a different plane. I call this Rip the Band-Aid Off Communication.

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Who Owns Your CX Program? (Hint: It’s Everyone)

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I often talk about customer experience lying at the intersection of communications, operations, technology, and employees. As Jan Carlzon, former CEO of Scandinavian airline SAS, once said, “If you’re not serving the customer, your job is to be serving someone who is.”. Let’s Take a Closer Look at Revenue Management/ Pricing.

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Reinventing airline loyalty with LoyaltyPlus FrequentFlyer

LoyaltyPlus

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) estimates that global revenues for airlines were down by 44% last year when compared to 2019 figures. Fortunately, operations have resumed with airlines looking for more creative ways of re-engaging with customers.

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United Airlines: Big Data to the Rescue of the Passenger Experience?

Michelli Experience

It’s hard to believe it has been seven months since United Airlines faced the first of three monumental customer experience debacles. In fairness, other airlines have faced similar flight delays due to computer-related “glitches” during the same time frame. Overbooking and United’s Technology Initiatives. Data Mining and Analytics.

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3 Customer Experience Ideas for 2022

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

Communicate and support employees serving customers in bigger and more consistent ways. There were more air rage incidents this year than in any year since the airline industry started recording these types of situations, for example. What do they need to know, hear and do to best communicate when things don’t go as planned? .

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Reinventing airline cargo loyalty with LoyaltyPlus Frequent Freighter

LoyaltyPlus

The saving grace for airlines has been the growth of cargo. Putting this in perspective, cargo typically constituted 10% of the airline business before the pandemic. It should therefore come as no surprise that the familiar concept of airlines rewarding agents or freight forwarders has gathered renewed momentum.

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How To Manage Expectations

Beyond Philosophy

Forbes and her colleagues studied Department of Transportation records for 160 million commercial airline flights between 1990 and 2016. They looked at the flying times for comparable flights between the same cities on the same airlines and at the same time of year. Airlines are Managing Customer Expectations.