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Summer Travel Underscores Need for Airlines to Overhaul Customer Service

Aspect

When it comes to customer service departments, few industries underwhelm on an annual basis quite like the airline industry. In fact, despite several recent PR missteps, the airline industry just had its highest rating ever bestowed on it by the American Customer Service Index. The bad news?

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Making it Easy to Do Business the Way Customers Prefer

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Secondly, many consumers want to self-serve to complete their transactions. Think about the last time you booked an airline ticket or placed an order for a product. Self-service platforms are gaining in popularity because they allow consumers to take control of solving their own problem.

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It’s time to move your Customers to where you want them to be

Beyond Philosophy

If organizations hadn’t moved us to these efficient and easy ways to simplify these tasks, we might still be making small talk with the airline employee or licking envelopes. Another area where some customers might have not realized was a benefit to them is Self-Service , particularly at the supermarket.

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How to Meet & Exceed Customer Expectations

ProProfs Blog

In his recent podcast with Ronn Torossian – Crisis Management and Customer Experience , Shep Hyken discusses the example of United Airlines. Hyken expresses how such incidents lower “our expectations of airlines.” ‘Fast’ Service. One of the first things your customers demand is fast service.

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What’s the Deal with Air Canada?

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It was just last year that Air Canada was flying high after being named Best Airline in North America by Skytrax, an independent U.K. research firm that surveys 20 million global travelers yearly. On paper, our beloved national airline, this flag carrier, is a nerdy octogenarian with an affinity for collecting accolades.

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3 Keys to Q4 Contact Center Success in 2021

Outsource Consultants

Delta Airlines is hiring 5,000 professionals to help support their customers, but still expects lengthy hold times (some as long as 9 hours) to persist into the fall. That’s because nearly 40% of current incoming call volume can be handled entirely with automated, self-service channels , according to a business leader survey from Gartner.

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How to Implement Customer Service Policies for Your Growing Business

ProProfs Blog

Here is a quick recap: Right before an overbooked United Express flight took off on April 9, 2017, airplane staff were recorded manhandling and forcibly removing passengers to make room for airline employees. . Now, it would be wrong to say that such a big airline company did not have a devised structure of customer service policies.