I've used Service to solve problems with airlines, with TiVo and others. Michael, do you find big differences between how the airlines comp users for different problems, or is their behavior consistent across carriers?
@hunterwalk pretty varied... foreign based carriers are in general much less generous than their US based counterparts. For example, US based carriers are under no legal obligation to compensate you for a delay as opposed to European carriers (under EU 261), but they do so as a form of good customer service.
@schneider I've used service a couple times, great experience!
I was wondering how service protect handled emails, specifically privacy. If it was done in house I'm assuming service polls my email, and crawls new ones to find my recent purchases? Is that it?
@andrew_breck yes, that's basically the way it works. When you connect the first time it also gets your historical purchases. We don't store the actual emails only the meta data on purchases / itineraries to be able to create your dashboard and help you if you have an issue.
Sounds promising and I like that you don't limit this email sync to a certain product vertical. 'He'll proactively offer to help'? How does that work? Like a notification? You guys sync to flight delay info? I'm excited
@nicoprincen with flights specifically we monitor your travel for disruptions - delays and cancelations. In the event of a delay over 2 hours or a cancelation, we'll reach out and offer to help - all you have to do is one tap and we'll take it from there!
Hey everyone - very excited to be launching Service Protect, our biggest update yet. Now our wizard syncs with your email to create a dashboard of all your purchases, making it easy to file a case with just one tap. And even better, if your flight is delayed or canceled, he'll proactively offer to help. Would love to hear what you think!
I travel a lot and this is very exciting. To clarify—let's say I have a ~3 hour flight delay in Atlanta (happens all the time), Service will automatically flag this and be able to talk to Delta that day? I never actually do this myself because it's such a chore and probably leave quite a bit of refunds on the table.
@boreta in general, yes. If the delay is weather related or air traffic control, it may not be delta's responsibility. But if it's a maintenance issue or something else within their control, we can for sure help. Our system will flag any delay over 2 hours and offer help - and we have a high rate of success!
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