Easyjet Airlines Case Study

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The exchange process allows one party, a business, to exchange a product or service for money with another party, the customer, for example in travel and tourism includes hotels, airlines and restaurants providing services to customers in exchange for money (Bennett and Strydom, 2001).
Relationship marketing has developed from an exchange process, into on establishing long term relationships with customers through providing beneficial products and services, quality pre and aftercare service and customer retention (Bennett and Strydom, 2001).
Customer orientation, provide a satisfying quality service, from research and development through to after-sales care, by making the customer the central focus in the business’s operations, satisfying customer …show more content…

Customer retention increased by 50 percent between 2010 and 2014 (aviationnews-online.com, n.d.) with profit orientation contributing to a 21.5 percent increase in profits from 2013 to 2014 (easyJet plc annual report and accounts 2014, 2014). Systems orientation was met with Easyjet’s introduction of a customer charter promise where all employees from pilots, cabin crew through to engineers, and head office staff, work together towards providing a satisfying service to its customers (corporate.easyjet.com, n.d.), and it’s social orientation with a carbon emissions reduction programme, involves lighter, more fuel efficient aircraft and operational procedures to avoid fuel wastage (corporate.easyjet.com, n.d.). Internal marketing is achieved at Easyjet through training programmes, engagement surveys, employee benefits and recognition awards, all aimed towards attracting and retaining employees who will deliver the level of customer service required to achieve business objectives (corporate.easyjet.com,

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