Customer experience at the heart of everything

The ultimate customer experience: four key trends in the evolving online space

Tim Gunstone, EyeforTravel’s Managing Director, has been talking to top travel players and key innovators across the world about the next steps for a highly-competitive, low-margin industry.

US Airline Industry

Flying in different realities

The statistics are in and the US airline industry has posted its best operational performance in many moons.

Improving online customer experience

HotelTravel.com's new two-step check out make bookings a breeze

PHUKET, Thailand - HotelTravel.com continues to improve its customer experience by simplifying the website’s checkout process, making it possible to go from hotel selection to payment ...

Customer-oriented US Airline becomes an oxymoron

The airline shift continues

The results were predictable, but jarring nonetheless.

Airline Customer Service

United Airlines hell, first-class style

For every United Airlines flight, United CEO Jeff Smisek offers a welcome video greeting to customers onboard. In that greeting, Smisek talks very highly of the company’s customer service ...

Air Travel

Research: Customer service most important consideration for air travelers

WASHINGTON, D.C. - This year's Airline Passenger Survey confirms that customer service is the most important consideration for air travel consumers.

Golfers' Nightmare

Bad news for traveling golfers

New research from Purple Parking, which provides parking at UK’s Heathrow Airport, has revealed that many of the major airlines have hiked up the price of transporting golf equipment.

British Airways to Revolutionise Customer Service

British Airways cabin crew to use iPads

HARMONDSWORTH, England - British Airways cabin crew are using the latest iPad model to bring a new dimension to customer service in the air.

KiaOraMai training program

New Zealand's service training program "will miss target"

When Prime Minister John Key launched the KiaOraMai training program two years ago, it was touted as raising the skills of 10,000 service-industry workers in time for the Rugby World Cup.

Airline Industry

Southwest Airlines: Apologizing quickly and profusely

There are some things that Fred Taylor Jr. and his crew at Southwest Airlines Co. just cannot explain.

US Airways Customer Service

US Airways: Some customet service improvements made, but...

Hub airlines have a delicate relationship with their customers in the cities where they hub. US Airways and Philadelphia are the perfect example.

Flights In East Africa And The Indian Ocean

Airlines have to wake up and up the ante on customer service

I left the our residence on the shores of Lake Victoria around 0230 hours for the nearly 50 kilometer drive to the Entebbe International Airport to check in for my flight on Kenya Airways to ...

The Internet Decade

The decade of delusion

Good riddance to the decade of delusion.

More Willing To Pay For Customer Service

Travel agents are back in business in the UK

Pundits have been predicting the demise of the traditional travel agency since the dawn of the web-based travel industry and low cost, no frills airlines in the 1990s.

Airline Industry

With fewer flights, airlines' customer service improves

A funny thing has happened during the airline industry's economic slump.

The airlines have actually improved customer service.

Bad Customer Service

Why Air France deserves its loss

It’s often small things that reveal the most about someone’s character and in business character is crucial.

Tremonts Customer Service Program

Hotel staff "Got it... and Get It"

A long-standing Baltimore company is planning a rally in honor of its associates (Tremont staff) who "Got it...

Southwest Airlines

Southwest Airlines has tentative deal with customer agents

Southwest Airlines inked a tentative new contract with its customer service employees Tuesday that includes wage increases and work rule improvements.

Tourism and Economy

Creating passion for your tourism business in difficult times

Tourism is a business and like all businesses its purpose is to make money. Simply put a tourism business that does not turn a profit dies.

Ryanair Toilet Charge

R.O.A.R.: Ryanair to charge for toilet use?

One of the great unresolved questions in journalism is this: If you were a journalist left with the opportunity to put just one question to one person; what would it be?

Loyalty Programs in Global Economy

Building customer loyalty in a global economy

In the current economic situation, developing and keeping customer loyalty is essential. Recognize that in a global economy, customers have many more choices than ever before.

Coffee, Tea, Attitude Adjustment

Know your Jetiquette

Did you receive a smile the last time you were charged for your extra checked bag? Was the reservation agent polite when they asked you for a credit card number to cover your $100.00 change ...

Lane Kemper Named

Alaska Airlines appoints managing director of customer service call centers

Alaska Airlines announced today that Lane Kemper has been named managing director of customer service call centers, where she will oversee the carrier's customer call centers, including ...

Airline Greed

Airlines are charging for the wrong bags

FAIRFAX, VA. - Flying with luggage this summer? It's going to cost you. Last week, United Airlines and US Airways joined American Airlines in charging for even one checked bag. Additional bags ...

Primarily Due To People Factors Rather Than High Prices

Overall satisfaction in airline industry declines to three-year low

Deteriorating levels of customer service provided by airline staff, rather than high fares and additional charges for amenities, have led to a significant decline in customer satisfaction with ...

Chosen As One Of Asia Pacific's Top Hotels For Customer Service

Travelers pick Park Plaza Sukhumvit Bangkok

BANGKOK - Business and leisure travelers have picked the newly-opened Park Plaza Sukhumvit Bangkok as one of the region's top hotels for delivering the highest levels of customer service. The ...

Middle East Tourism

Concern is growing for staffing and service issues in Dubai and Middle East

Innovative solutions to address future staffing issues were one of the key topics addressed at the Arab Hotel Investment Conference in Dubai.

Southwest Airlines Debacle

eTN Mailbox: Southwest Airlines outrage

Quiet Rockland of Rockland County, New York is enraged over the callous criminal disregard for safety and human life demonstrated by Southwest Airlines (NYSE: “LUV”) and the FAA.