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Meeting customer needs at the moment of truth

Enghouse Interactive

For example, every airline will need to be prepared for moments of truth around cancelled or missed flights. However, short-haul, no frills carriers will have different additional moments to a full-service, long-haul airline. This will vary by the sector you are in and the type of business you are. Moments of truth are different.

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Guest Blog: “Zhuzhing Up” Humans in the Contact Center

ShepHyken

Airline agents are still at check-in counters to guide passengers after self-service kiosks and to arrange complicated ticketing. A superagent will be a fast consumer of data and information, making them contextually aware of customer situations — and never needing to rely on a prepackaged script. Technology replacing humans.

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The Importance of Call Center Etiquette

Global Response

While there are plenty of companies who fit into the company B category—think Chewy, Southwest Airlines, the Ritz-Carlton, Zappos, Trader Joe’s—there’s plenty of companies who fit into the company A category as well (we won’t name names). Use scripts when necessary to help agents frame things positively for customers. High call volume.

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AI is the Powerhouse Enabling Friendly Customer Service

CSM Magazine

One industry constantly flooded with inquiries is the airline sector. Brands like KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, have already found ways to leverage AI to power their service operations and drive friendlier and more personal customer support interactions. Few industries have more volume of customer service data than airlines.

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13 Call Center Training Tips For Upskilling Agents (+ Case Studies)

Babelforce

4 Go beyond scripts. Scripts help agents provide great customer service. Instead, teach agents the ideas behind the scripts so they are better equipped to help in a variety of situations. These sweeping changes had an immediate impact: the airline soon recorded a 12% increase in the ratio of customer compliments to complaints.

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How to create loyal customers and brand evangelists in the travel and hospitality industry

Up Your Service

For airlines, hotels, resorts and other companies in the travel and hospitality industry, this presents new challenges in terms of managing their reputation. Personalization and memorization deal with the fact that airlines or hotel brands should already know something about who I am and what I like.”.

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11 Types of Bad Customer Service (and How To Avoid Them)

Help Scout

Final call for boring One man was on hold for 15 hours with Australian airline QANTAS. This one was a robot, but there are plenty of real humans who aren’t able to break from the script even when the play suddenly has a new act. Be careful about scripting customer service responses too tightly. Allow for human judgement.