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Summer Travel Underscores Need for Airlines to Overhaul Customer Service

Aspect

When it comes to customer service departments, few industries underwhelm on an annual basis quite like the airline industry. In fact, despite several recent PR missteps, the airline industry just had its highest rating ever bestowed on it by the American Customer Service Index. The bad news?

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Battle of the Airlines, Round II: United Airlines and Going Beyond in Customer Service

Fonolo

This blog series explores two separate experiences related to the airline industry. This week, Fonolo’s Digital Marketing Manager describes his interaction with United Airline’s pre-flight customer service. According to onholdwith.com , airlines are the second worst offenders when it comes to hold times.

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What is IVR?

Freshcaller

IVR or Interactive Voice Response is a system that reads out a menu or list of options during a phone call, and depending on the input (keypress made by the caller) received, redirects the call to the next level of menu options or to the right person. IVR has been a part of most big business phone systems since the 80s.

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How Delta Saves $5Million a Year With Conversational IVR Service

Babelforce

But Delta Air Ways won big when they adopted conversational IVR service back in 2013. The US airline invested in conversational IVR with an aim to improve the 36 million calls their IVR handled each year. It’s too late to be an ‘early adopter’ – conversational IVR is close to becoming the default.

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When Should You Consider Using an IVR?

Talkdesk

When calling large companies, instead of immediately speaking to a customer service agent, you’ll usually arrive at a phone tree system that asks you to make a series of numbered choices. This system is called an interactive voice response system, or IVR. Understanding IVR Technology.

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3 Call Center Software Upgrades for Airlines to Optimize Customer Satisfaction

Talkdesk

Similarly, enterprises across all verticals need to keep customer satisfaction at an all-time high to make sure consumer sentiment across the internet remains positive—as word of mouth is everything. One market that has been making a go at better customer service is aviation. This represents a 2.9

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3 Keys to Q4 Contact Center Success in 2021

Outsource Consultants

This includes excessive hold times, overwhelmed agents, poor customer satisfaction, and ultimately brand harm. Delta Airlines is hiring 5,000 professionals to help support their customers, but still expects lengthy hold times (some as long as 9 hours) to persist into the fall. Don’t wish you started three months sooner.