Ai Video: Selling trip essentials and more, are airlines ready?
14th June, 2019
How are commerce strategies of airlines evolving, and what sort of expertise is required to sell more?
The fact that airlines are going beyond selling seats and air ancillaries, and even gearing up for today’s digital travel ecosystem is exciting. For example, the idea of counting on data to run a two-sided marketplace (running a platform and creating an ecosystem of retailers around it) or pushing a B2B business line via API exemplifies the same.
Also, going direct, for example, for selling vacation packages means airlines are competing with OTAs in the arena of customer acquisition. Offering relevant recommendations, crafting a superlative UX design, content/ pages, search optimization, paid advertising, email campaigns etc. demands solid preparation. “All of this (being a retailer) requires a different mindset (in comparison with just being operationally-focused),” says Iztok Franko, founder, Diggintravel
Franko, who was in London recently for Ai's Ancillary Merchandising Conference, spoke about:
- Preparation needed for selling more
- Being an OTA or a marketplace
- Sending traffic to other sites/ platforms
By Ritesh Gupta
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