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TripAdvisor Bats For Comprehensive Flight Experiences

The newly launched TripAdvisor features are expected to lay more emphasis on flight experience and amenities

 

If you are on TripAdvisor, your next journey is just going to be a bit more enjoyable one, as the site now launches some new features. Apart from airline reviews about the entire experience, there is the new flights search service, and also the Beta launch of the flight score which helps rate an entire experience of the customer. Since the marketplace seems to be more crowded these days, these additional features will actually make experiences more transparent, and help customers make direct comparisons between flight options.

TripAdvisor's community is pretty extensive, with over 340 million unique users a month. It also boats of a 350 million traveler review database, which includes extensive opinions of travelers across flights and travel destinations. With the airline review platform, there will be all major airlines includes, which makes it an easy-go resource, where one can look at a flight experience beyond the price tag, to select the right flight. According to TripAdvisor India Air Travel survey 2015, 54 per cent of Indian consumers looked at the brand itself, when picking a flight. The new features will allow travelers to look beyond the price tag, and look for an entire experience when searching the right option.

Bryan Saltzburg, the Senior Vice-President and General Manager of the Global Flights Business, laid emphasis on how flight experiences have changed over time. “Over the years, the in-flight experience has changed dramatically – in some ways for the better, in some ways for the worse. We know our users tell us it is not always easy for travelers to find the best options by just looking at the baseline price of a flight. We’re uniquely solving that problem by surfacing candid traveler reviews and photos, detailed amenities information and tools to find the lowest fares all on one site empowering flyers to pick the best itinerary for their trip,” he said. 

Some of the major enhancements include:

• Airline Reviews Platform – Gives travelers a platform to share their candid feedback – both good and bad – about all major airlines around the globe.
• Flight score (beta) – Helps demystify the flight shopping experience by displaying a 1-10 out of 10 score for individual flights based on the power of qualitative traveler reviews, the quality of the aircraft, in-flight amenities and the duration of the itinerary. The score helps travelers quickly scan for the best flight options before booking.
• Enhanced Amenities– Showcases even more comprehensive information about in-flight amenities, such as power ports and the type of in-flight Wi-Fi available to flyers.

Some leading airlines have already hopped on, to embrace TripAdvisor's new platform. Names like Air Canada, Swiss International Air Lines, Aer Lingus, Aeroflot, AeroMexico, Air New Zealand, ANA, Cebu Pacific, China Airlines, HK Express, Thai Smile, Transavia, Virgin Australia, Westjet and WOW Air, are already on board, with aim to get the most candid reviews of their service. However, the feedback shall be going guideline reviews by TripAdvisor, to keep and harmful content out.

 

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TAGS: TripAdvisor, flight booking, travel

 
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