Amadeus Airline ITAmadeus Automated Customer Contact

Airlines

In today’s challenging economic times, airlines are having to evolve in a very competitive environment and are continually seeking additional ways to gain a commercial advantage – at the same time as boosting both productivity and customer satisfaction.

Customer centricity that drives satisfaction

Amadeus Automated Customer Contact (AACC) is an innovative customer centric tool, which allows you to instantly notify passengers about information relating to many different aspects of their flight. You can use it to send automatic messages that help you to increase productivity and reduce costs while also delivering exceptional levels of customer service.

Providing real-time passenger information has become an essential part of customer service. With AACC, you are able to send customised messages via SMS or email about everything from a simple reminder to an announced delay. This helps to establish a direct relationship with the passenger and drive greater customer satisfaction.

Such notification services can prove invaluable to passengers when they are trying to avoid wasting time at the airport. It can also help them if they need to re-organise arrival plans or re-schedule meetings as the result of an unforeseen delay.

Flexible, customisable and efficient

AACC leverages the power of Amadeus’ Altéa suite of seamless airline IT solutions, enabling event notifications to be triggered throughout the whole passenger journey – so you can provide timely and personalised customer service at any stage. Implementing a new event is quick and easy and monthly statistic reports are automatically generated for management purposes.

As well as saving time and operational costs, using AACC to contact passengers automatically and warn them about changes minimises both the need for re-accommodation at the airport and any compensation liabilities.

Amadeus Automated Customer Contact enables you to send automatic, customisable passenger communication by SMS and email, helping you increase productivity while also enhancing customer service.

With Amadeus Automated Customer Contact (AACC), you can:

> Increase productivity;

> Reduce compensation liabilities;

> Enhance customer satisfaction.

Trusted technology partner

As the global airline industry’s leading technology partner, Amadeus is committed to helping you overcome your biggest business challenges by continuing to provide innovative and advanced integrated solutions, plus best-in-class support and expert consulting services.

Find out moreFor further information, visit www.amadeus.com/airlineIT or speak to your Amadeus Account Manager today.

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Key benefits at a glance

Flexible event triggers

> Can be configured to send automatic passenger notifications about re-accommodation; waitlist clearance; air segment cancellation; changes of timing, flight number, booking class, flight date or flight routing; re-seating; electronic ticket issuance; ticketing time limit; check-in reminder; customer service after no-show; invitation to join loyalty programme; advertising;

> New triggers or parameters constantly being added to the above list. Check our website or with your account manager for the latest functionalities.

SMS and email notifications

> Possible to send SMS or email notification to all eligible passengers;

> Formatting and delivery is handled by Amadeus;

> SMS worldwide distribution fully managed by Amadeus using a telecom partner with global links and high capacity;

> Message layout and content for each trigger event defined by the airline at time of implementation;

> Message delivery acknowledgement stored directly in PNR history;

> If delivery is not acknowledged or there is a technical issue during delivery, the booking is automatically queued for manual handling.

XML messaging

> Possible to send XML messages to airline’s MQ Hub;

> Automatic queuing for manual handling, if a technical issue has occurred;

> The airline uses the XML message to build the notification (email, fax, SMS, etc) and to send it.

Customer centricity

> Passengers can receive notifications, regardless of how or where they have made their booking;

> Full content customisation enables truly personalised passenger communications.

Fully configurable

> Notification parameters can be defined by point of sale; notification date/time activation range before departure; importance of timing change; passenger preferred language; flight range; origin and destination; booking class; and passenger tier level;

> Language and message content is fully configurable by the airline;

> Standard layouts for each message can be customised to meet airline requirements.