Success stories told by the digital leaders. At best you’ll get inspired to do great digital work. At worst you’ll learn about new interesting people from airline, travel, digital and experimentation world. Narrated by Iztok Franko, founder of Diggintravel.com and a digital enthusiast.
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11 hours ago
11 hours ago
25 min
In the third episode of the How Airlines Become Data Driven series, we move from measurement to analysis and explore one of the most valuable habits I've developed during five years of consulting with airline ecommerce and digital marketing teams.
Rather than starting with individual reports, campaigns, or marketing channels, I explain why airline teams should first consolidate their data, build a joined view of performance, and analyse it from the top down.
This simple six-step framework has become the foundation of almost every airline analytics and reporting project I've worked on.
In this episode, we talk about:
- Why airline data often lives in disconnected systems
- A practical six-step framework for airline marketing analytics
- How to consolidate backend bookings, web analytics, search demand, and marketing data into one joined view
- Why top-down analysis helps avoid paralysis by analysis
- How to build high-level airline performance dashboards
- Why breaking trends down into meaningful segments leads to better insights
- How external data sources, such as airline seat capacity, provide critical market and competitive context
- Why connecting the right datasets is the foundation for better business decisions
This episode is accompanied by a comprehensive companion article featuring 10 real-world reporting examples, dashboards, charts, and visualizations from airline consulting projects. The article expands on the framework discussed in the podcast and demonstrates how it can be applied to bookings, web traffic, flight searches, Google Ads, campaign segmentation, market analysis, airline capacity data, competitor benchmarking, and more.
Whether you're building weekly performance reports, evaluating marketing campaigns, or trying to create a more data-driven airline organization, the principles are the same: start with the big picture, connect your data, and only then drill into the details that matter.
RESOURCES:
Read the companion article with 10 practical airline analytics examples, reporting dashboards, charts, and key takeaways from this episode:
https://diggintravel.com/airline-data-connecting-the-dots/
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