{"id":4944,"date":"2014-07-16T23:14:57","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T17:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simplify360.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/16\/social-customer-service-review-british-airways\/"},"modified":"2023-08-18T12:11:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T12:11:19","slug":"social-customer-service-review-british-airways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simplify360.com\/blog\/social-customer-service-review-british-airways\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Customer Service Review \u2013 British Airways"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\u2018To Fly. To Serve\u2019.<\/strong>
Indeed British Airways is serving by flying with over 183 destinations around the world. \u00a0It is one of the largest flag carrier airlines in the United Kingdom with a fleet size of 285, the largest in the world. The headquarters of BA is in Warterside, Harmondsworth in England.
BA is probably one of the earliest players to do branding in a way so as to connect the chords with masses.\u00a0 Saatchi & Saatchi<\/a> made the \u2018Face\u2019 advertisement commercial for BA and is often considered to be a television classic commercial.\"Image\"<\/a> Smiling face formed by a crowd of people. Image credits: cached.imagescaler.hbpl.co.uk\"Image\"<\/a> Image credits: i1.ytimg.com
A player in traditional marketing is a biggie in social media marketing too with a social presence on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Linkedin.
We thought of taking a look at the social index of BA and weighing out the pros and cons and figuring out how well they fare among their fans.
Element\u00a01 \u2013 Tone of Messaging<\/strong>
BA has a formal tone of communication on \u00a0Twitter\u00a0and\u00a0Facebook .
On Twitter<\/strong><\/em>
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On Facebook<\/strong><\/em>
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Element\u00a02 \u2013 Are they sending canned responses, without understanding the context?<\/strong>
British Airways does not respond to every query but when they do, they address every user with their name and respond to the issue only after understanding it well.
Here is an example as to how they respond on Linkedin:
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Element<\/strong>\u00a03 \u2013 Response Time<\/strong>
BA has a response time of around 60-65 minutes on their Facebook page but the unfortunately the page has a relatively low engagement rate of only around 1.61% (Engagement rate of \u00a0around 7% is considered to be a decent one). On Twitter they have a response time of 3.55 hours.
In our analysis we found that BA has a fair presence on social media and the majority of the negative queries were from the services end (customer care\/ airline services).
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Element<\/strong>\u00a04 \u2013 Is brand sending personalized replies?<\/strong>
Yes, every interaction is on a personal level by tagging the user. However, on Twitter they do not address the use the name of the user and only\u00a0use the handle.
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Element<\/strong>\u00a05 \u2013 Is brand following up on the complaints?<\/strong>
We did not come across any conversations on follow ups from BA. Rather there are a lot of queries which have not been answered.
Element<\/strong>\u00a06 \u2013 Is brand answering to all the queries?<\/strong>
BA has a number of queries which have not been answered.
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Element<\/strong>\u00a07 \u2013 Is the brand present on major complaint forums?<\/strong>
Mouthshut.com which is one of the biggest online complaint forums in India has around 94 reviews of BA, mostly negatives \ud83d\ude41 , however none of them has been responded by the brand.
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Element<\/strong>\u00a08 \u2013 Is brand sending duplicate replies?<\/strong>
No BA does not send duplicate replies; they customize their messages to each and every query- a good practice indeed.
While analyzing BA\u2019s social media strategy we found that there is a lot of potential to improve on their social CRM. Being an airline brand, they are ought to listen to both negative and positive feedback from their fans. What surprised us the most was that BA’s timeline was not open to public for posting, which is not a good practice as per standards.
Also, by increasing the response rate and well-timed interaction they can improve the overall services and experience with customers.
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\u2018To Fly. To Serve\u2019. Indeed British Airways is serving by flying with over 183 destinations around the world. \u00a0It is one of the largest flag carrier airlines in the United Kingdom with a fleet size of 285, the largest in the world. The headquarters of BA is in Warterside, Harmondsworth in England. BA is probably …<\/p>\n

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