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Author: Iztok Franko

Interview with Lee Barrett from VivaAerobus about airline ab testing

"Iztok, you have to talk to Lee." This is what I said to myself as I sat in my office thinking about the key problem of airline conversion optimization - how to scale up airline AB testing programs and run more AB tests. I was deep into the research for my Airline Digital Optimization Yearbook when I remembered Lee Barrett's (Head of Ancillary Revenue at VivaAerobus) presentation...

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Airline user testing and UX optimization should work hand in hand

This is the second part of my interview with Martyn Reding, Head of UX and Optimization at Virgin Atlantic. In this part, I talked to Martyn about how they do their airline user research and how they optimize UX by focusing on user needs. For those who missed it, in the first part Martyn explained why and how they’re building their airline UX team from scratch. He also talked...

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How to build user-centric airline UX and Optimization Team - Virgin Atlantic case study

How do you recognize an airline UX designer? He is the "cool" dude sitting behind the biggest Mac screen with his headphones on. You know the guy, right? He always looks like he really doesn't want to be disturbed. If you try to look at his screen, he acts like you're invading his intimate space. It's like asking a painter to explain his painting before it's done....

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How to find your conversion rate gaps with travel web analytics

It was a Sunday afternoon, and I was sitting at my computer, staring at my inbox and grinning ecstatically. I guess sometimes getting an email on the weekend is a good thing after all. I’d just received Avinash Kaushik’s latest newsletter and he was getting deep into digital analytics framework. Why was I so happy? Because he’d written about the same thing I've been trying to...

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What ideas airlines can get from fast growing online retail business?

“Your airline should become an online retailer.” “You should be like Amazon, Netflix, Spotify or [name your hotshot online platform here].” Do you feel bombarded by these advice, too? I was in my car listening to a podcast when it hit me - I need to do a hands-on article about ancillary revenue ideas for airlines based on a real online retail case. My car was in the tire repair...

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Larry Kim gave us his tips for building great travel chatbots

For the past few months, our 2018 Airline Digital Merchandising research has been my main focus. I’ll admit digital marketing, my ultimate passion, was forgotten for a while. So I think it’s high time to dive deeper into a topic that will interest all travel digital marketers. I'm talking about travel chatbots. Conversational commerce, virtual assistants and chatbots are probably among the topics you are following closely...

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Find out about 2018 airline ancillary revenue trends from our Digital Merchandising survey and research

The 2018 Airline Digital Merchandising White Paper is Diggintravel’s second annual survey and research in the field of airline ancillary revenue. The survey results white paper will provide you key insights on 2018 airline ancillary revenue and digital merchandising trends. While other reports focusing on ancillary revenue – like IdeaWorksCompany’s Yearbook of Ancillary Revenue – concentrate on detailed statistics of airline ancillary revenue, we focus on...

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2019 Airline Digital Retailing Framework helps airlines evaluate and plan their ancillary revenue and retailing

The goal of Diggintravel Airline Digital Retailing Framework is to provide you a holistic view of all areas (and their interdependencies) needed for a successful airline digital retailing. Framework can help airlines strategically asses and plan actions by each area. For a successful ancillary revenue program all areas need to be addressed and integrated. Airline digital retailing framework was done based on the insight of 45...

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Allan Phang is one of the most unique people in the airline industry. Of course I met Allan digitally; he's impossible to catch otherwise. I ran across his LinkedIn profile when I was doing research about AirAsia. Their mission to become a digital airline was always very intriguing to me. Their CEO Tony Fernades says: You either be a "Dinosaur Manager" or "Digital Manager". It's either...

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