AEGEAN TICKET CANCELLATION AND COMPENSATION
The Digital Transformation of AEGEAN’s operational processes
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The Digital Transformation of AEGEAN’s operational processes
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ATCOM, AEGEAN’s long-standing Strategy and Technology Partner, empowered the company to timely and effectively respond to the overwhelming volumes of ticket cancellation and compensation requests due to COVID-19. The information subsystem we implemented enabled AEGEAN to tackle a major challenge in what is probably the largest crisis in the history of modern aviation, by building resilience and elasticity within its operational processes.
Towards the end of February and into the beginning of March 2020, AEGEAN saw the totality of its fleet – apart from the cargo aircrafts- grounded and all of its passenger flights cancelled, due to the pandemic safety measures. As a result, AEGEAN’s systems faced an unprecedented overload, receiving ticket cancellation and client compensation requests on a massive scale. We were called upon, in early March, to implement an information subsystem to manage the cancellation of tickets and trigger the compensation procedure, where needed.
To deliver the MVP (Minimum Viable Product), we applied a fully agile development process and fulfilled three main requirements. We:
The MVP was delivered by the end of March and, since then, it’s been a work in progress. The current enhanced product consists of an intricate ecosystem that uses governance and authentication elements through the Sitecore Experience Platform.
Through the painstaking, rigorous work and dedication of ATCOM’s AEGEAN team, not only did we reach our objectives, but also equipped our client with a successful, effective and efficient solution to tackle one of the most critical challenges of the aviation industry in recent years. Our solution provides an automated system that significantly reduces application processing time and removes the factor of human error wherever possible. More importantly, we further solidified our relationship with AEGEAN and provided a vital tool with the potential to digitally transform other related operations of the company.
