Passenger Services

Since T'way Air was born in 2010, we have always known that our ability to create a differentiated customer experience would be the key to our success. We are obsessed with this philosophy, and it's ingrained in everything we do - every day. As we embarked on our business journey in a crowded and competitive marketplace, we also knew that a solid digital foundation would be critical. A digital-first approach was going to be the cornerstone to delivering on our philosophy across all customer touchpoints. Over the past eleven years, we have enjoyed continued growth, becoming the second-largest L...

"The bigger the economic decline, the greater the acceleration, of what economist Joseph Schumpeter called creative destruction. This is the cycle where a recession causes declining industries and marginally successful business models to disappear faster than they would have if the national economy had continued to grow." by Author This truly remarkable quote comes from Alec Levenson, a senior researcher at the USC Marshall Center for Effective Organizations. It is a quote that echoes what I have been chewing over, ever since we saw the impact of COVID-19 hitting our industry with brutal force...

The immediate focus of any employee travel system should be on bringing greater visibility in securing seat(s), as well as providing the user with the means to resolve any unfortunate outcomes, such as being denied a seat, in the most efficient way possible. by Author Having explored the predictability problem in the first part of this blog series, let us now explore the other two crucial aspects of airline staff travel management.  Enabling better reaction speeds for corrective action When the domino effect is set off by a last minute non-availability of seats on the flight for the ...

Discounted or free travel privileges of airline employees (and their travel nominees) come with a significant caveat – the tickets are mostly on a 'space available' basis and therefore not confirmed until just before flight closure, and a full fare paying passenger will always be assigned a higher priority when it comes to limited availability of seats. This is because the seat availability information is known only at the last moment, and in high traffic situations the uncertainty can escalate to frustration for the airline employee or their nominee(s) who hopes to travel.   In other wor...

The simplest answer to this question is that few airlines currently have the technology capability to do so. By nature, the airline industry demands very complex functions and extremely high reliability from Passenger Service System (PSS) platforms. Managing various price points across a fare ladder and forecasting demand for these price points makes the system even more complicated. Dynamic pricing systems must provide for an infinite set of conditions and contexts – whether these may apply in practice or not. The price may end up being any value at all, but these are calculated in real time ...