Jet2 & Jet2Holidays
Supporting services for UK’s #1 tour operator
45k Hotel
Stop Sales Managed
46% Improvement
On 2018 Loading Accuracy
12% Reduction In
Handling Time
Background
Jet2Holidays is the UK’s largest tour operator offering package holidays to the Mediterranean, the Canary Islands and European Leisure Cities from 9 UK airports. Under the same brand is the company’s commercial aviation business, Jet2.com. With 12 million customers in the sky in 2019 and over 100 aircraft operating throughout summer, Jet2.com is the UK’s 3rd largest airline.
With so many customers and rapid recent growth, Jet2 faced a challenge during peak periods to log customer complaints and send them off to the relevant department for further investigation and also to manage the seasonal upturn in hotel stop sales. Given the nature of these tasks, accuracy and the need for world-class business processes is paramount.
“Open Destinations have impressed with their dedication, focus and attention to detail. They have been a pleasure to work with and have become a valued extension to our UK based team.”
The Solution
To overcome their business challenges, Jet2 have gradually built a team within Open Destinations’ Business Support department, totalling from 30 to now over 130 staff. These are made up of Finance, Customer Admin teams, Data Controllers, and Team Leaders.
With significant responsibility being handed over to Open Destinations, it was essential for Jet2 to recruit the right staff for two distinct functions and become a seamless extension of the team. To accomplish this, staff were trained over two weeks in Goa, covering Jet2’s processes and applications and Go-Live supervision.
The Result
With a highly-trained, committed and dedicated Business Support team and bi-weekly quality sessions in place, notable performance improvements did not take long to achieve. The Data Control team has loaded over 450,000 hotel stop sales to date (09.08.19) with an error rate of just 0.42%. This is significantly lower than the agreed Service Level Agreement (SLA) of 1.5% and demonstrates a 46% improvement on 2018 hotel contract loading accuracy. There was also a significant improvement in the Productivity SLA ; 114.0% compared with the 95% target, so too the Average Handle Time (AHT) of 52.63 seconds versus an SLA of 60.00 seconds.
The Customer Administration team tasked with querying and investigating customer e-mails has also consistently exceeded the daily logging target and reduced the backlog of emails to achieve a peak-period SLA of less than 2 working days. As the Jet2 business has grown exponentially in 2019, the Open Destinations Business Support Service team has made a positive contribution to the business with high levels of efficiency in service and cost.
