As we do every year, the beginning of the year is reserved for our airline industry digital benchmarks. We're finalizing our 2023 Airline Digital Optimization survey results and plan to publish the 2023 Yearbook in the following weeks. While survey and self-assessment are a huge – and the most visible – part of our airline digital optimization research, talking to airline digital leaders is just as...
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The most important piece of content you can find on the Diggintravel website is our yearly industry research paper where we benchmark airline digital optimization maturity. Apart from the airline self-assessment, talking to experts who have put airline digital optimization into practice is a key part of the research and insights. So, as we get deeper into our 2023 benchmarks, you can expect more interviews with...
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I've been doing airline digital research and benchmarks for years now. My biggest learning from our research is that airlines who are good at all the things we benchmark (analytics, UX and user research, experimentation) are the ones who really build innovative airline digital products. In a nutshell, digital optimization and experimentation is all about being customer centric. You need to understand your customers so you...
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Diggintravel is your best resource for ecommerce and digital benchmarks. For the fourth straight year, Diggintravel conducted an airline survey to understand airline digital maturity when it comes to various parts of digital optimization: digital team setup, digital optimization skills, user and UX research activities, digital analytics, experimentation & A/B testing, digital optimization tools, internet booking engine flexibility and organizational support for digital optimization. Below you...
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This is the 5th and last 2021 talk in our Airline Data Talks series. Being more data-driven is always something that comes up when I talk to airline digital professionals, so we hope that this series will help you with your airline digital analytics evolution. Check out our special airline digital analytics content hub for special analytics resources and insights by airline analytics leaders. For our final...
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There is one thing you need to do if you want to build a great digital user experience: you need to understand your customers. You need to know their pain points, you need to see where they struggle on your website, you need to know where they have problems in your app. How can you know all that? Airline digital experience analytics is the answer. We talk...
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This is not another article about airline experimentation. If you read our blog, you know we’ve done plenty of these. This is an article (and podcast) about how to build better airline digital products. And the most important part of building better digital products is to make faster and better decisions. Before we get into how you can do that, let me tell you something else....
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This is the first article in our new Airline Digital Talks podcast series. We're starting the new cycle of our Airline Digital Optimization Yearbook project, and during the research phase, I interacted with a lot of great digital minds from our industry. With the new series, we want to bring more exposure to the work of these airline digital professionals. How did the pandemic change their work?...
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I was in the middle of my podcast talk with Lukas Vermeer, Director of Experimentation at Booking.com, when it hit me. We were talking about how experimentation helps you build better travel digital products when Lukas said something really powerful. Rolling out features is not the goal. Solving customer problems is the goal. And we don’t know which of the features that we’re rolling out are actually...
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The goal of this paper is to provide you with insights into key 2021 airline digital trends that will define the airline industry in the future. What is the best way to learn what will be the key 2021 airline digital trends? Probably to ask the airline industry’s digital leaders themselves. At the beginning of January 2021, I reached out to more than 20 airline digital leaders and...
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