Crisis management
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Airlines Outsourcing Support
Airline support for reservations, refunds, baggage inquiries, mobile check-ins, disruption communication, and customer care.
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What we support
Services for airlines teams.
Airline support for reservations, refunds, baggage inquiries, mobile check-ins, disruption communication, and customer care.
Customer care
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Mobile check-ins
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VRU
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Claims and refunds
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Technical support
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Reservation systems
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Baggage inquiry support
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Flight disruption communication
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Airlines support
Airlines BPO support built around customer demand.
Airlines teams need support that can keep up with customer questions, service requests, sales opportunities, and operational follow-up without adding pressure to internal staff.
Our outsourced airlines support team works from documented workflows, escalation rules, reporting, and quality checks so your customer-facing work stays clear and consistent.
Where airlines teams usually start
The support areas handed over first, in the order most teams add them.
- 01Crisis management
- 02Customer care
- 03Mobile check-ins
- 04VRU
Scope is confirmed with you before launch. Start with one area and add the rest as coverage settles.
Built around demand
Scale coverage without rebuilding your team.
Start with the support areas you need most, then expand hours, channels, or scope as customer demand changes.
Common setup needs
- Inbound and outbound coverage
- Documented workflows and escalation rules
- Quality reviews and performance reporting
Free consultation
Get a airlines support plan, not a sales call.
Tell us the airlines work that is consuming your team's time and we will map the coverage, team size, and reporting it needs.
- A scoped airlines coverage plan
- Team size, hours, and escalation rules confirmed up front
- No obligation and no cost for the consultation
FAQ
Airlines outsourcing, answered directly.
Common questions about outsourcing airlines support.
Agents handle reservations and changes, schedule and fare rule questions, check-in and app help, baggage inquiries, refund and claim intake, status updates, and disruption rebooking under your policy. The airline keeps operational decisions such as delays, cancellations, and aircraft swaps, along with fare and waiver policy, compensation beyond set limits, safety and security matters, and regulatory responses. Agents apply the rules you publish and escalate what falls outside them. During setup your project manager documents each contact type and its limit of authority, so an agent knows what can be resolved on the call.
Irregular operations create a surge of contacts within hours, all from passengers who need the same things: a new flight, a clear answer, and sometimes a hotel or a refund. We prepare for this before it happens. During scoping we agree a disruption playbook with you covering what waivers usually allow, which rebooking options agents may offer, how priority passengers are identified, and how your operations center communicates updates to agents. Added agents trained on rebooking can be brought onto the queue, and coverage runs around the clock. Your team still decides the waiver; agents apply it consistently.
Yes, with the access you grant. Agents work in the airline's own platforms, for example your passenger service system, reservation system, baggage tracing tool, and CRM, under individual logins with permissions limited to the role. Training covers your booking flows, fare rule displays, ticket exchange and reissue steps, and the notes you expect on each record. Some airlines start outsourced agents on lower-risk transactions such as seat changes and status inquiries and extend permissions to exchanges and refunds after quality results are reviewed. Which functions are opened, and when, is decided with you during scoping.
For a delayed or missing bag, the agent confirms the passenger's file reference, checks tracing status in your baggage system, updates delivery details, and explains the next step in plain terms. For damage or loss claims, agents take the intake: collecting the required documents, checking the submission is complete, and logging it for your claims team. Decisions on liability and payout amounts stay with the airline. Agents are trained on your published baggage policies and do not promise outcomes or timelines beyond what those policies state. Repeated issues on a route or at a station are flagged in reporting.
Refund work splits into intake and decision. Agents verify the booking, check it against your fare rules and any active waiver, process refunds that clearly qualify, and route the rest to your refunds desk with the case summarized. Passenger refund obligations are set by regulation and vary by jurisdiction, so the rules agents apply come from your compliance team. For new payments, card data is governed by PCI DSS, and we agree a capture method with you that keeps card numbers out of call recordings and notes. Passport and travel document data is viewed only where the task requires it.
After the discovery call, a project manager maps your contact types and builds training from your own material: fare families and their change rules, ancillary products, loyalty tiers and recognition standards, special service requests, and your tone of voice. Where you can provide a training environment of your reservation system, agents practice in it, working through real scenarios such as a missed connection or a name correction. They move to live contacts in stages, with calls reviewed closely at first. When you change a policy or issue a new waiver, agents are briefed before it takes effect.
Look at how the provider plans for disruption, since that is when passengers judge you. Ask how capacity is added, who is already trained, and how operational updates reach agents. Ask which reservation functions agents will perform and how errors on ticket reissues are caught and corrected. Ask about language coverage for your routes and overnight coverage across time zones. Ask how loyalty members are recognized. Ask what reporting you receive. With us, a project manager maps the process, agents are trained on your standards, and the reporting rhythm is agreed before launch.
It is the wrong decision if the aim is to distance the airline from angry passengers without fixing the policies that make them angry. Agents with no authority and no good answer make things worse. It is also a poor fit where your systems cannot give outside agents workable access, leaving them to take messages while passengers wait. Some contact should stay internal regardless: accident and incident response, legal and regulatory complaints, and high-value corporate accounts. A sound plan gives outside agents real authority on routine contacts and keeps those sensitive categories with your own staff.
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