Yearly Archives: 2016

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Flightbuddy Exhibiting at London Aviation Festival

Flightbuddy will be exhibiting at stand 67 at this years bigger and better Aviation Festival at the London business centre 7th and 8th Sept. Come by and say 'Hi' if you are attending or send along a colleague.

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Volaris select Flightbuddy to hug their passengers!

Founded in 2004 Volaris is Mexico’s second largest carrier with a fleet of 64 aircraft flying domestically and internationally to over 65 destinations. Volaris selected Flightbuddy to manage their disruption communications to passengers. The service went live 1st Sept. It is a significant event for Flightbuddy as it introduces integration with the Sabre flight management system as the source of real time flight data. The Flightbuddy team worked closely with Volaris on the project to ensure a smooth launch and provide the guidance and training to make the project a success.  

By |September 2nd, 2016|News|Comments Off on Volaris select Flightbuddy to hug their passengers!

The Emotional Effect of Delays on Passenger Sentiment?

Service delays are commons experiences for airline customers. Passengers deem these delays a waste of their time and judge the airlines quality of service on the basis of the duration. Despite being commonplace these delays negatively affect the emotional responses and behavioural intentions of passengers. The challenge is to reduce the passengers anger and perceived length of the delay. Korean researchers1 published the first airline specific research into measuring the impact of delays on passenger sentiment in July 2015. Exploring three emotional elements, anger, uncertainty and acceptance they looked for correlations with two key behaviours, intention to repurchase and negative word of mouth. The study looked at survey results from 365 delayed passengers, a service delay being defined as the ’perceived’ delay in delivering the service from the airline in question. The results were very interesting and slightly counter intuitive. They showed that a passenger’s anger grew as the delay lengthened as did uncertainty but whilst uncertainty did not result in reduced intention to purchase or negative word of mouth the feeling of anger significantly reduced the intention to repurchase and showed a strong correlation with negative word of mouth. Such negative behaviour has a real brand and revenue impact. Acceptability, i.e passengers that accepted the delay, was found to have a positive impact on repurchase intentions suggesting that Airlines can increase acceptability of a delay by carefully timed communications on the state of the delay, perhaps even the cause and by issuing soft or hard vouchers which serve to recognise the impact of the delay on the passenger and reduce the perceived delay by giving the passenger something to do i.e. get a snack. Put simply if an airline can reduce the perceived length [...]

By |August 31st, 2016|Benefits, News|Comments Off on The Emotional Effect of Delays on Passenger Sentiment?