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Case study

Loyalty platform unified across 9 sub-brands.

The airline group had accumulated brands, alliances, and loyalty rules faster than it could rationalise them. We designed a shared loyalty spine with local brand flexibility so members finally experienced one programme even when the back-end economics stayed market-specific.

9
sub-brands unified
+24%
repeat booking uplift
$310M
incremental year-one revenue
1
single member profile per traveller

The situation we walked into.

Members could earn and redeem across the group, but profile data, pricing rules, and campaign tooling were still fragmented by brand. Marketing teams could not act on traveller behaviour fast enough, and customer service teams had no trustworthy single view of a member.

The airline needed group-level loyalty economics with market-level flexibility. That required more than a database consolidation; it required a new operating model for campaigns, pricing, and member support.

A simplified view of the delivery shape, the control points that mattered, and the signals the client team used to keep the program on track.

Program workstreams

The changes that made the outcome possible.

Stream 01

Identity and profile merge

Traveller data was matched into a single member spine with transparent survivorship rules and support workflows.

Stream 02

Earning and redemption logic

Shared loyalty services handled points, tiers, partner rules, and offer orchestration across all brands.

Stream 03

Campaign operations

Marketing teams shifted from quarterly batch planning to near-real-time traveller segmentation and experiment design.

Stream 04

Service integration

Contact-centre and airport teams accessed one member view with brand-specific context layered on top.

Execution rhythm

How the delivery moved from pilot to scaled operation.

Stage 1

Programme blueprint

The group agreed on shared member concepts, local exceptions, and a phased migration path.

Stage 2

Profile unification

Identity, consent, and historic activity moved into a common member model with rigorous data-quality checks.

Stage 3

Commercial activation

Offer, campaign, and redemption services went live brand by brand without disrupting live bookings.

Stage 4

Group optimisation

The airline began running loyalty experiments and lifecycle plays at the group level with market-specific controls.

Twelve months later

What changed after the transformation settled into the run.

Outcome 01

Members experienced the group as one programme

Travellers could see status, balances, and offers consistently instead of interpreting multiple brand-specific views.

Outcome 02

Marketing got a much shorter feedback loop

The group now tunes offers and tiers using current behaviour rather than waiting for delayed monthly data snapshots.

Outcome 03

Support conversations improved materially

Airport, digital, and contact-centre teams work from the same member history, reducing escalations and compensation leakage.

"
The programme let us keep the personality of each brand while finally behaving like one group when it mattered to the customer.
Chief Commercial Officer - Global airline group

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