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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.

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The lost suitcase – the sad reality of customer experience evolution

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In 2018, the Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA) celebrated its 7th birthday. In 2011, the creation of the CXPA saw the competencies and capabilities practiced by those working in the field of customer experience as a profession for the first time. Which airline(s) were the guilty party?

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With customer experience design, functional is good. But don’t stop there – by Beth Richardson

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We’ve all encountered these scenarios, where we’re left feeling a certain way by one supermarket/airline/store/bank and completely different by another. In scenario 1, the business understood this customer’s whole journey. Beth started out in internal communications, journalism, and knowledge management. So why the difference?

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The Frontline Experience Gap

Horizon CX

A customer has purchased $4,500 of lumber and doors, three carts full and all is paid for. The customer then waits 40 minutes because only one employee in the store has a key to open the loading door to allow the customer to exit. An airline Gate Agent is asked by a passenger to check-in for a same-day, earlier flight.

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Resourcing up the silos – Beth Richardson investigates the world of customer experience job vacancies!

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When that focus on customers is absent, or partial, you get coffee shop customers queueing for 15-minutes for drinks because your baristas cannot keep up with demand from your order and pay app (an issue you have been trying to fix for two years). Beth started out in internal communications, journalism, and knowledge management.

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Show report: CX and EX inextricably linked, with empathy as the glue

Think Customers

The power of connectivity was on brilliant display this month in Salt Lake City, where approximately 10,000 customer experience professionals gathered to soak up inspiration and new ideas to deploy upon returning home. airline in 2022 by the Wall Street Journal , which scores airlines on seven operations and customer metrics. “We

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Are You Winning on Purpose?—The Creator of the “Net Promoter” Tells Us How!

Beyond Philosophy

Bad profits are also when an airline charges you $200 to change a ticket for a flight six months out. The airline has no cost except the administrative effort, but they’ll charge anyway. These profits make accountants happy because they look like profits, but they make customers angry.