All industries

Airlines

Early research

Experience is promised centrally and delivered locally.

The question

Airlines commit to an experience standard. What happens to that intent by the time it reaches a gate at 6am?

Experience intent is set in strategy and executed across thousands of independent operational moments. Our airlines work examines where that intent survives, where it degrades, and what the degradation costs, using Canadian carriers as the initial evidence base.

What we are examining

  • Experience intent versus delivered experience
  • Operational recovery and its true cost
  • Where central promises meet local constraint