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Airline Customer Experience (CX) Index by UserTesting Finds Southwest Website Highest-Rated and Spirit Lowest-RatedLAS VEGAS, Sept. 7, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Future Travel Experience – Airlines are not only competing against each other for travelers' business, they're also being held to standards of excellent digital and in-person customer experience set by innovative companies from other industries. For airlines, the customer experience relies heavily on the desktop website where nearly 60% of bookings take place, yet airline web experiences are severely lacking. To provide in-depth analysis into what is delighting or frustrating travelers, UserTesting, the most advanced on-demand customer insights platform, today published the Airline Customer Experience Index – a competitive benchmarking study comparing the desktop web user experiences (UX) of the top 10 airlines in the United States: Alaska, American, Delta, Frontier, Hawaiian, JetBlue, Southwest, Spirit, United, and Virgin America. 1,000 travelers evaluated the desktop websites based on five factors—Ease of Use, Speed, Credibility, Aesthetics, and Delight—which UserTesting has identified as key user experience attributes through 10 years of helping companies leverage human insights to improve ROI and increase loyalty. Consistent with Forrester Research's U.S. Customer Experience Index, 2017 – which found overall airline CX performance to be dismal – all ten airlines in this study received mediocre-to-low scores in most desktop website attributes and experiences. Key findings from the report include:
UserTesting makes this announcement from booth A11 at the Future Travel Experience Global conference. Press and attendees are invited to visit the booth to connect with UserTesting directly and pick up a complimentary copy of the Airline CX Index. Research Methodology For the second installment of the UserTesting CX Index Series, the Airline Customer Experience Index, UserTesting ran a competitive benchmarking study – from June 29, 2017 to July 12, 2017 – of the top 10 U.S. airlines. 1,000 travelers (100 per airline) evaluated the airlines' desktop websites based on five key user experience factors (see above). Each traveler attempted to complete a series of standard tasks on the airline websites from their desktop or laptop computers and then respond to rating-scale questions about their experience, resulting in both quantitative data and qualitative insights. A copy of the full Airline CX Index, including charts, is available at http://info.usertesting.com/airline-customer-experience-index.html. To view UserTesting's inaugural Retail Mobile Customer Experience Index, visit http://bit.ly/2rt91Vv. About UserTesting UserTesting enables companies to put their customers at the center of every business decision by leveraging the power of human insights. The most advanced on-demand customer insights platform, UserTesting enables product managers, UX researchers and designers, marketers, and digital executives to connect with their exact target customer in a matter of hours and uncover actionable insights that drive ROI. More than 35,000 companies have adopted UserTesting to make smarter business decisions throughout the design and development of their digital experiences as well as in their marketing messaging and competitive positioning. For more information, visit www.usertesting.com. Media Contact:
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