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Cost-Cutting Airlines – Headed for Trouble!

Beyond Philosophy

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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The Gift of Customer Feedback by Isabelle Zdatny

ShepHyken

“Nice to have” industries like online retailers, hospitality, and airlines must invest more in experience to establish trust and loyalty with their customers. High customer expectations and the ability to switch to competitors easily mean companies must work even harder to keep their consumers happy.

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The Five Rules for Affecting Real Culture Change

Beyond Philosophy

For example, we were working with an airline that wanted to improve their experience. ” In essence, this alone tells you everything you need to know about this airline. We discovered in getting to know their culture that internally, they referred to passengers as “self-loading freight.”

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35 Indicators that a Company Isn’t Customer-Centric

CX Accelerator

It’s at that point I realized that I never received an email from the airline after booking my flight. When I called the airline, I explained to them that I didn’t have my booking code — and apparently my name, credit card number, location, and approximate time of the flight were not enough to find my reservation.

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7 Questions That Reveal Whether Your Company is Committed to CX

Beyond Philosophy

In our Global Customer Experience Consultancy, we were doing some work with an airline. This airline didn’t call customers passengers. Signals from management and fellow employees will do more to improve your Customer Experience than a set of rigorous metrics reviewed at the weekly meeting. They called them self-loading freight.

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Guest Blog: Are You Setting the Right Customer Experience Goals?

ShepHyken

Given the current state of technology, your strategic goals must now go beyond improving metrics. Customer Experience will be the primary focus for successful operations in 2019 but is that “unwavering commitment to better CX” controlled by smaller metrics that don’t have a big effect on the experience as a whole?

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4 Ways to Get Customers to do What You Want

Beyond Philosophy

For an executive team that routinely puts numbers before anything else, add in numbers that measure the impact that your efforts in customer experience are having on a particular metric. 5 Ways to Make a Great Impression on Your New Customer Airline Safety Videos: Changing Customer Behavior—for the Better!

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