The 4 Keys to Running a Future Successful Airline
The airline industry is on its knees and at the mercy of Governments, Shareholders and cashed-up billionaire investors who've always wanted to be millionaires.
With...
Leadership Interview: Time For A Loyalty Reboot
The Aviation Festival Asia is hosting a series of leadership interviews with experts in their respective fields to discuss key airline challenges, insights and...
Leadership Interview: Can Airlines Have Too Many Elite Members?
Can airlines and hotel loyalty programs have too many elite members?
What happens to the core business when programs are top-heavy on elites?
Does the core...
Rethinking Elite Status Downgrades
Losing elite status in an airline or hotel loyalty program doesn’t mean a member is done travelling—or done with your brand.
Too often, brands treat...
Airline Loyalty is a C-Level Role
In 2020 -Â United Airlines announced a US $5B loan secured by MileagePlus, proving once again that the Loyalty Program is more valuable than...
Simple Actions To Increase Loyalty Revenue
Increase loyalty revenue with these simple tips
My mission with Travel Data Daily has always been to push the loyalty industry forward, usher in better...
Leadership Interview: Managing Liability, Engagement & Redemptions
Some of the hot topics in the loyalty industry right now are Managing Liability, Member Redemptions & Member Engagement.
How important is it for Loyalty...
Creating a new airline loyalty status tier – [Part One]
Creating a new loyalty status tier can make or break loyalty program economics.
From both internal and public perception - new loyalty tiers are exciting!
They...
Disrupting Airline Loyalty – The billion dollar risk airlines are taking
Change is in the air, and disrupting airline loyalty programs is coming from an unlikely source.
Globally, airline loyalty programs generate billions of dollars in...
Creating a new airline loyalty status tier [Part Two]
Creating a new airline loyalty status tier - part two
In the previous paper, creating a new airline loyalty status tier - part one, we...
Under the Hood: What the Qantas Frequent Flyer Changes Really Mean For Members
Under the Hood: What the Qantas Frequent Flyer Changes Really Mean For Members.
Last week, Qantas announced an overhaul of the frequent flyer program.
The Australian...
Leadership Interview: Frontier Airlines Insights
"MASSIVELY INSIGHTFUL - Something all airlines can learn from". That is how Aviation Festival Americas organisers described the recent "What's the Status of Status"...
Measuring Loyalty – Tracking passengers who fly with competing airlines
Measuring loyalty success through share of wallet tracking is more powerful than traditional metrics.
What would your frequent flyer program do if the most valuable...
5 Predictions for Airline Loyalty in 2020
Looking back over the past 10-years, could we have predicted the airline loyalty industry would be where it's at today?
Could we have predicted that...
Leadership Interview: Reinventing Loyalty Programs
Industry veterans, Dave Canty and Phil Gunter join the Loyalty Summit WebCast to discuss reinventing loyalty programs.
In the Loyalty Leaders Insights discussion series, we...
Airline Loyalty Blockchain – Is it all hype?
Consider today's problem...
You take a flight to see family for Christmas, and you earn some frequent flyer miles...You buy a coffee from Starbucks once...
Virgin Australia to buy back 35% stake in Velocity for $700M
Did Velocity really double in value over 5 years and is it worth AUD $2bn?
Virgin Australia announced its intention to buy back its 35%...
Monetizing Data: How Much is Airline Loyalty Data Worth?
Successful data-driven airlines typically attribute value of the airline loyalty data they collect within the loyalty program based on the commercial application of that...
Could Machine Learning Help Cathay Pacific Save Millions From Travel Delays?
Aircraft fuel is without a doubt the biggest cost for any airline and often receives widespread attention, especially when airlines hedge their bets the...
The Travel Industry Will Soar One Day Again Soon
What is the new normal for the aviation industry?
Are we destined for an eternity of wearing masks, social distancing, quarantine periods, Government restrictions?
Is the...
How Big Data is Changing The Way We Fly
Airline big data, combined with predictive analytics is being used to drive up airline ticket prices.
As airlines and their frequent flyer programs gather more...
Commercializing frequent flyer program member data
I recently shared an article on how airlines are using information to individually price airfares and extract maximum value from passengers which was thought...
Loyalty Status Matching – What’s the Future?
According to research by Loyalty Data Co, up to 60% of all Status Match submissions are fraudulent.
With no way to know how many times...
Metrics to measure airline revenue performance
Complicated revenue management drives unsatisfactory results, but it doesn’t have to be that way, writes Tom Bacon.
Let me start this story with a quote...
Shadow Loyalty Members – The Revenue Hiding in Plane Sight
Take a moment to consider the following: Who are the most valuable passengers to the airline? How do the airlines track and measure total...