The contemporary airline business is among the business world’s most digitally-based, digitally-focused, and digitally-intense. It was, therefore, a privilege and pleasure for Iztok and me to have the opportunity to chat with Wizz Air’s Head of Digital Transformation and Innovation, Michaela Hermans, for our series of interviews about airline digital retailing sponsored by SITA. Michaela joined Wizz Air in June 2021, following a career that includes...
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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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Welcome to the third episode of the Airline Digital Cabin Talks, sponsored by SITA CrewTab. We’re pleased to have Viktorija Kucerova, Senior Consultant, Marketing, Strategy, and Sustainability at SITA, as our guest for our third conversation. For this podcast, Iztok and I decided to make a slight adjustment to our format. Unlike our first two podcasts, where we brought you two great guests with tons of...
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Welcome to our second Airline Digital Cabin Talk interview, where we bring you insights from airline ecommerce and ancillary leaders. In the latest edition, Iztok and I had the great pleasure to speak with James Lee Barrett. Lee’s impressive airline career includes roles in Cabin Crew Development and Performance and Development Management at Air New Zealand at its head office in Auckland, Head of Customer Service...
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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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Airline digital commerce focuses extensively on efforts to maximize revenue during the initial reservation and, sometimes, at various post-booking intervals. Aside from merchandising products such as extra-legroom economy seats or cabin up-sells and upgrades, airlines rarely pay much attention to the retailing opportunities that exist in the cabin. They just… happen. But there are smart airlines out there that do more – in some cases, a...
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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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I've been doing airline ecommerce consulting and benchmarks for a long time, and I've rarely seen a proper airline digital analytics implementation. If you want to do smart airline digital marketing, knowing how your business (e.g., website) is performing should be kind of a no-brainer, right? Proper measurement should be at the core of managing any business, especially a digital one. By proper, I mean you need...
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