Air Canada sells its products through various direct and indirect sales channels. Select managed travel agency partners - an important customer segment for Air Canada - were traditionally managed at a distance by an account manager, who may have visited once or twice a year to provide KPI contract revenue performance, product news and training as required. Customer support queries would be directed to the contact center, where they would be subject to operational call volumes and wait times.
The objective was to provide an easy-to-use interface to facilitate partner engagement on 24/7 basis, provide access to KPI contract performance reporting, product information, and training.
Working closely with the Air Canada Customer Support Team, we developed – AC Liaison - a virtual account management platform to provide select managed travel agency partners with the tools necessary to help grow their business and provide efficient sales support for their travelers.
Partners now also have access to passenger booking/ticketing sales support Monday to Friday 0800 – 2000 through the new AC Liaison platform.
AC Liaison also provides an efficient method of two-way communication while engaging participants with consistent branding and strong visuals, clear expectations and up-to-date, detailed results.
A custom-built browser extension puts the Air Canada logo permanently at the top right corner of the user’s browser. The extension lets the participant login to the entire family of Air Canada websites with a single login, eliminating the need for agents to keep track of several user names and passwords and doubles as a constant marketing tool.
Instant Access to the
Air Canada Family
Marketing
Communication
Once logged in, participants are greeted with a highly visual page designed to create excitement around Air Canada and its product family.
An integrated communication system announces new routes, incentives, sends out reminders and updates, etc., in the participant’s preferred language.
Online Support
Participating agency partners in need of support have three options, each fully integrated within the AC Liaison platform:
Online articles, reference material and FAQs.
Online web form for support queries with guaranteed response times.
Automatic online chat for pressing requests for departures within the next 24 hours.
Performance
Tracking
Agency owners and financial executives can track their agency’s performance based on established KPIs through a dynamic dashboard and adjust their agency sales focus as needed to achieve their quarterly goals.
The objective was to provide an easy-to-use interface to facilitate partner engagement on 24/7 basis, provide access to KPI contract performance reporting, product information, and training.
Working closely with the Air Canada Customer Support Team, we developed – AC Liaison - a virtual account management platform to provide select managed travel agency partners with the tools necessary to help grow their business and provide efficient sales support for their travelers.
Partners now also have access to passenger booking/ticketing sales support Monday to Friday 0800 – 2000 through the new AC Liaison platform.
AC Liaison also provides an efficient method of two-way communication while engaging participants with consistent branding and strong visuals, clear expectations and up-to-date, detailed results.
