Airlines Have Room To Improve Online
Airlines can improve their conversion from clicks by as much as 25% by better matching landing pages to different types of trip profiles, according
to a study.
The study, from New York-based Intent Media, was conducted on behalf of multiple airline partners who advertise through Intent Media's Ads for Travel platform. The company
declined to reveal the airlines.
Several hypotheses on how to use existing landing pages to more effectively drive conversion were tested.
Ads for travel, which allow airlines
to advertise directly in online travel agency search results, always link to a landing page matching the customer’s original search. But during the study, different landing page options were
tested based on projected trip profiles.
“Landing page optimization is nothing new,” says Richard Harris, CEO of Intent Media, in a release. “But normally traffic for a
given campaign gets the same set of landing pages. What we found is that varying the landing page based on a predictive model can greatly improve campaign results.”
In one
case, projected leisure trips were sent to a landing page that displayed flight options in a calendar format, allowing them to see fares both on and around their requested travel dates. This
contrasted with the usual practice of serving a page that only displays itineraries for exact travel dates.
Landing leisure travelers on the airlines’ calendar pages boosted
conversion by 20% compared to a control group seeing the traditional results.
“The beauty of this test is the airlines didn’t have to build a lot of new pages,” says
Harris. “We used pages they already had. It was just a question of more intelligently deploying those pages."
This is a good illustration of “de-averaging,” he
says.
"Typically companies spend a lot of time and effort to tune their campaigns and especially their sites to produce the best answer for all of their traffic,” Harris says.
“But as our research shows, there is no single best answer, but rather multiple answers depending on the type of trip being planned.”
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