CSM Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

As Frontier Airlines embarks on its first full year of a digital-only strategy, James O’Hare, MD of LINK Mobility , looks at whether it’s right for every business. . At the end of last year, Frontier Airlines announced it was moving to a digital-only customer service model. Delivering empathetic care can’t be done by a bot.

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Hallmark Business Connections

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Giving employees permission to be empathetic is as simple as giving them the time and tools they need to put kindness and care into action. Alaska Airlines, for example, encourages employees to engage customers on a human level before taking any other action.

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Lithium

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The frustrations of dealing with the various customer care teams aren't generally baked into their travel plans. It's crucial that you stay relevant with the new customers but in a way that might alienate your current customer base. Irish Airline Ryanair has taken this in stride with their viral TikTok account.

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Natalie Petouhof

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Customer care extends far beyond the traditional call center. Every touch point or interaction with the company (or even content about the company) can affect the customer’s satisfaction and loyalty to the brand. The components of a business case include: Goals and objectives for the social customer care initiative.

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ROI Social Media Airlines Customer Service 45

Kayako

MAY 13, 2022

Are you ready to provide fast and responsive customer care? Build a Help Center so easy to use, it becomes your customers’ go-to. What Is Customer Self-Service? Customer self-service is exactly what it sounds like – making it easy for customers to help themselves. Discover Kayako Self Service.

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White Paper E Commerce E-support Customer Satisfaction 110

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JANUARY 26, 2015

As customers, we don’t see the difference between our corner coffee shop and a multinational corporation. So customers tell me, again and again, that I should really pitch this improvement idea to three industries. It is a often a price-based customer battlefield. Social Customer Care: Best Practices for Major Engagement.

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Customer Experience Social Media Leadership Airlines 274

ShepHyken

MAY 29, 2017

My Comment: What United Airlines scandal! The day or two after the scandal where a United Airlines passenger was physically and brutally removed from the plane, the stock plummeted and United lost almost a billion dollars in value. One analyst explains why. Well not even two months later the stock is up 11% and touched a new high.

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2017 Article Customer Service Airlines 97

ShepHyken

APRIL 17, 2017

Getting More Referrals = Letting People Your Customers Care About Know About Brands That Care About Them by Joseph Michelli. Joseph Michelli) Here are some broad approaches to activating promoter behavior in your loyal customer base. United Airlines and the Dollars and Cents of Customer Experience by Augie Ray.

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2017 Article Social Media Customer Service 79

Interactions

APRIL 29, 2022

According to an article in the Wall Street Journal , “The average number of live job openings in call, contact and customer care centers advertised on Ziprecruiter.com in February was more than double that of the average the year earlier before the pandemic, according to the recruitment platform.”. Travel and Hospitality.

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Contact Center Airlines Hospitality Insurance 62

ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

This week we feature an article by Misa Chien who shares great lessons we can learn from the Southwest Airlines customer culture. This also reminds us that customer service doesn’t just happen on the front line. It happens throughout the entire company. It must be part of the company’s culture. – Shep Hyken.

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Blog Customer Service Airlines Culture 85

Currency Alliance

APRIL 15, 2024

This means that loyalty programs are now a more important channel for customer acquisition and retention than ever before. Customer frequency is partly determined by the nature of your business. On the other hand, 60-70% of customers may be motivated to redeem in the currency of a partnered airline or hotel.

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Loyalty Programs Loyalty Airlines Banking 52

ShepHyken

MARCH 31, 2018

Over the last few years, customer service has shifted from traditional phone support toward social media channels like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and others. Dan Gingiss started the Social Customer Care Track and interest has grown exponentially. Social Media Changes Customer Service. Social Proof. Finish Strong.

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Social Media Customer Service Marketing Airlines 87

Natalie Petouhof

AUGUST 13, 2015

Operationalizing Social Customer Care on Twitter. One way to operationalize a brand’s ability to track and interact with Customer Service and Twitter is to consider Twitter’s new data and functionality to create improved and transformative customer service solutions for brands.

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Customer Service Social Media Airlines Hotels 91

CSM Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2019

We all have at least one thing in common – we’re passionate about Customer care. The Summit provides a space for us to learn best practices from each other and about new technologies from sponsoring vendors.” – Michelle Buckley, Director of Operations, Customer Relations/Rapid Rewards, Southwest Airlines.

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Customer Service Strategies Customer Service Airlines Chief Customer Officer 40

Conversocial

AUGUST 17, 2021

At Conversocial, the majority of our partners in the transport sector fall within two categories - airlines and train operators. It’s going to be months, probably years, before it returns to pre-pandemic levels. If it ever does.

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BlueOcean

APRIL 20, 2023

But one day, he came in the office and said that he had applied at Copa Airlines to be a flight attendant. SH : Yes, of course. There was an agent that I truly loved. He was just a great kid and a hard worker. But there was a catch: He couldn’t pass the swim test.

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Interactions

JANUARY 29, 2019

We’ve talked about how to choose the right technology for your customer care strategy and how an automated customer care solution can take your customer experience to the next level. One of those solutions, conversational AI, is becoming quite a buzzword in the customer care industry.

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Customer Care Airlines Contact Center Definition 48

ShepHyken

JUNE 6, 2018

I notice the same type of behavior happens with airlines and hotels. It’s easy to spot the frequent traveler by the way they are treated by airline and hotel employees. So, it appears that frequency might warrant a better customer experience. The same might go for how much a customer spends.

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Airlines Hotels Loyalty Programs Loyalty 97

Lithium

AUGUST 21, 2019

If you’d like a refresher on customer expectations and care best practices before reading on, check out our Digital Customer Care Playbook. Think of social media monitoring as a brand’s customer support over social media. What is social media monitoring? Issues or complaints.

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Social Media Airlines Exceptional Customer Service Loyalty 40

Lithium

AUGUST 21, 2019

If you’d like a refresher on customer expectations and care best practices before reading on, check out our Digital Customer Care Playbook. Think of social media monitoring as a brand’s customer support over social media. What is social media monitoring? Issues or complaints.

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Social Media Airlines Exceptional Customer Service Loyalty 40

Lithium

AUGUST 21, 2019

If you’d like a refresher on customer expectations and care best practices before reading on, check out our Digital Customer Care Playbook. Think of social media monitoring as a brand’s customer support over social media. What is social media monitoring? Issues or complaints.

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Social Media Airlines Exceptional Customer Service Loyalty 40

Lithium

AUGUST 21, 2019

If you’d like a refresher on customer expectations and care best practices before reading on, check out our Digital Customer Care Playbook. Think of social media monitoring as a brand’s customer support over social media. What is social media monitoring? Issues or complaints.

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Social Media Airlines Exceptional Customer Service Loyalty 40

Second to None

MARCH 30, 2018

Here are three fundamental tools for building a superior customer-service strategy. I recently had a meeting with a marketing executive from an airline. But it’s their customers—their very pissed-off customers—who are doing the marketing for them. Think beyond marketing. I asked him how his marketing campaigns were going.

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Customer Experience Airlines Brands Voice of Customer 112

ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

If you’re a Customer Experience specialist, you might think that salespeople are not the kind of role models to get customer care tips from. I give them customer experience tips and insights, not the other way around.”. Read Shep’s latest Forbes article: Do Airline Passengers Have The Right To Recline?

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Roadmap Books Sales Airlines 118

ShepHyken

DECEMBER 9, 2019

How a customer service project is helping Southwest Airlines realise its 360-customer vision by Nadia Cameron. CMO) VP of customer support services talks through its latest customer technology transformation. 5 Ways Elite Brands Are Setting the New Standard for Customer Experience by Janelle Estes.

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Article 2019 Customer Service Airlines 71

ShepHyken

JANUARY 18, 2019

It’d be like getting on an airline that’s committed to a great in-flight experience, but the pilot’s messages can only be 30 seconds in length, flight attendant interactions are limited, and you have a brief survey at the end asking how your peanuts were. Would you consider that a great customer experience?

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Blog Customer Experience Contact Center Airlines 96

NICE inContact

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Now what would be really cool — the holy grail of real-time social customer care — would be if you got a response while you were still in the store. In a desperate attempt to make the connection, you tweet your airline #pleasewait! And what if you are on the move, without laptop access and in a hurry to catch a flight?

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Airlines Social Media Definition Travel 55

Customer Alignment

AUGUST 15, 2017

The poor management of these areas is probably the airline customers’ biggest pain point. Even if disruption is sometimes unavoidable; airports, airlines and all other parties involved in the travel process shouldn’t be excused from taking responsibility and ownership of the problem from the customer.

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TechSee

JULY 24, 2018

Visual communication creates intimacy and strengthens the connection between the organization’s representative and the customer, turning it into an interaction between two fellow human beings. Visual engagement has been proven to be a transformative medium for providing customer care.

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Customer Centricity Culture Technology 2018 104

Win the Customer

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

It’s also a great way to show others that your brand cares about them. So, which companies do social customer service right? No list of companies that get customer service on social media is complete without mentioning the American airline JetBlue.

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Social Media Customer Service Multi-Channel 2014 145

Win the Customer

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

This hub is the largest in South Korea, hosting terminals for most of the major airlines, including American, British Airway and Lufthansa. Customer Care in a Transparent Company. Expanding the umbrella further, marketing is just one part of the total customer experience.

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Brands Social Media Airlines 2015 69

ShepHyken

MARCH 24, 2017

Suddenly, each airline had its own website, with its own esoteric booking system, full of opaque requirements and mandatory fields. Add in the confusing multitude of airline ticket aggregators and obscure credit card rules, and you have a recipe for a headache. Then the internet arrived with its promise of increasing efficiency.

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Blog Customer Experience Airlines Books 92

Oracle

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Dan and Joey begin their discussion by examining the book, Message Me , by Joshua March, CEO of Conversocial , one of the leading digital customer care platforms. According to March, direct messaging is going to become “the future of customer service.”

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Customer Experience Airlines Social Media Customer Care 45

ShepHyken

AUGUST 10, 2016

Other industries, such as the airlines and cell phone service providers are doing their best to improve. First, you have to know that customer’s expectations are higher than ever. We teach the customer what good service is when we tout our awards and make promises. Unfortunately, businesses can let their customers down.

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Airlines Government Customer Service Training Brands 86

Interactions

MAY 22, 2019

It’s during these urgent travel situations when I need customer care to perform at it’s best, and it’s often when it fails the most. In fact, 59% of respondents who had contacted an airline, hotel, rental car, or cruise line in the past year did so through the phone, in both urgent and non-urgent situations. Long wait times.

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Travel Hotels Hospitality Books 61

ShepHyken

APRIL 21, 2017

Read Shep’s latest Forbes Article: United Airlines Debacle Teaches Valuable Social Media Customer Care Lesson. Dianna Booher works with organizations to help them communicate clearly and with leaders to expand their influence by a strong executive presence.

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Blog Airlines Social Media Communication 85

ProProfs Chat

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Basically, it is a tool that aids customer support teams to track requests of end users and effectively resolve customer-care related issues. The software enables you to track, handle, and resolve customer queries effectively. It helps to streamline customer support process; making your agent’s life easy.

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E Commerce E-support Airlines Customer Retention 73