Tag Archives: customer experience

Your service: heartlessly perfect or perfectly heartless?

In a mass customization it is necessary to integrate CRM technology, design the right processes for different customer segments, identify new value generation opportunities using VGM (Value Generation Matrix) and hire the right people to convert value into revenue. Continue reading

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The payment customer experience

One of the weakest links in the airline Customer Experience Itinerary chain is the payment experience. Continue reading

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My CEM Birthday Experience

Birthday congratulation messages often produce a negative customer experience. Learn how to get it right. Continue reading

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Hitit’s Crane Talk covers avionline’s CEM methodology for FFP

Hitit’s Crane Talk covers avionline’s CEM methodology for FFP Continue reading

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ourpax.com, featured by USA Today

It is an immense honor to see the last entry to this travel customer experience blog featured by USA Today. Click here or on the screenshot to have a look at it!

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Two (global alliance member) airlines go bust and nobody notices – why Customer Experience matters

Spain’s Spanair and Hungary’s Malev airlines went bankrupt. What can we learn from a Customer Experience Management (CEM) perspective? Continue reading

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Everything else is an option – the Spirit barebone experience

Interview with Spirit Airline’s EVP Barry Biffle about how a low cost airline can offer the ultimate customer experience: being safe, reliable and cheap Continue reading

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Why are the most hated airlines so profitable?

Expectations need to be defined as part of a Customer Experience Management (CEM) project. Without this, the value proposition becomes unmanageable. Continue reading

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Airlines are from Mars, customers are from Venus

Customer Listening is the first step to improve the Customer Experience and create new value propositions. CRM and other airline IT tools can help to implement it. Continue reading

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What if “AA” meant “Apple Airlines”? A tribute to Steve Jobs.

What can airlines learn from Steve Jobs and Apple’s way of managing corporate strategy? Continue reading

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Can we educate unruly passengers?

The pushback of a fully loaded domestic Iberia flight, perfectly on time for its 7:15 a.m. departure, suddenly stopped. Moments later the Captain told us that one of the runways of Madrid Barajas had just been closed because of a … Continue reading

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Is Customer Experience Leadership contradictory to Cost Leadership?

After decades of initiatives about “customer centric organisations” (the 1980s), “loyalty and CRM” (the 1990s) and “customer experience management” (the 2000s), business leaders are discovering with dismay that the customer of the 2010s is less loyal than ever. What happened?

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