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Cost-Cutting Airlines – Headed for Trouble!

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I’ve been flying major airlines for a long time, and like everyone else, I’ve noticed the changes – and not in a good way. At American Airlines, for example, incentive payments for top executives are now determined exclusively by income and cost savings. The checked baggage fees. The snacks we don’t get anymore.

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3 Examples of Change for the Better in Airlines

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There have been many great stories in the past couple of months about airlines doing what was right by their Customers. Frontier Airlines Pilot Feeds His Passengers While Stranded on Runway. Southwest Airlines is a great Customer-centric airline with excellent employee engagement.

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How To Manage Expectations

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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.

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Customers Emotions are Predictable

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Simply put, because then we can manage them in others when necessary. Let’s say there is a weather delay during the holiday season and you work at the airline that now has to inform passengers they aren’t going to make it to their destination. Maybe it’s a referral to another airline or car rental agency.

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Flying High and Well-Grounded: How Virgin and Southwest Practice Airline Employee Ambassadorship

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Richard Branson and Herb Kelleher never studied HR theory or staff management principles. Both understand (in the case of Sir Richard at Virgin Group) and understood (in the case of Herb Kelleher at Southwest Airlines) the value of putting people and customers first, HR practice second. Michael Lowenstein, Ph.D.,

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Re-Imagining Your Customer Experience in a Time of Change

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Delta is a large, successful airline that has been comfortable for some time now. Train employees in managing emotional experiences. How are you equipping your customer-facing teams with skills to manage customers’ emotional experiences? At times like these, organizations are willing to try new and scary things.

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7 Questions That Reveal Whether Your Company is Committed to CX

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When you’re having your regular management meetings, where are the Customer Experience and the customer stats listed on the schedule? In our Global Customer Experience Consultancy, we were doing some work with an airline. This airline didn’t call customers passengers. Where does the customer get put on your agenda?