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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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Improve Your IVR, Improve the Customer Experience

Aspect

Her first call to TSA threw her into an IVR loop she couldn’t seem to get out of. It turns out when she made her reservation, she missed a number, maybe it was a letter… Regardless, the number she provided to the airline was incorrect. Her next call was to the airline. The airline was busy.

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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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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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The Real Value of Self-Service in Customer Support

Babelforce

And that’s why you need self-service. Among millennial consumers, as many as 70% favour self service. In this post: The business benefits of self-service options Do consumers want self-service options? What are the best self-service channels? And happy customers stay put! #2

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Enhance customer service experience using self-service

Vonage

This was at the time when gas stations were converting from full-service to self-service. These early self-service stations did not have the advanced technology as those of today. We’re self-service, you know.”. Almost immediately, an airline employee appeared to help me.

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3 Keys to Q4 Contact Center Success in 2021

Outsource Consultants

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. That’s because nearly 40% of current incoming call volume can be handled entirely with automated, self-service channels , according to a business leader survey from Gartner.