Sep 15, 2019, 9:20 am
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ISolve is an app solution available to Flight Attendants on their tablets to grant AAdvantage miles to passengers as on the spot compensation for service deficiencies. The intent is to provide limited compensation to individuals, not incidents that affect all or numbers of passengers, such as cabin temperature issues, delays, etc. Broken seats, non-working IFE, front cabin meal issues, etc. will be compensable on the spot. (Power issues will generally not.)
Link to “American Airlines Flight Attendants Will Start Offering Onboard Compensation This Month” by Gary Leff, The Boarding Area, 11 Jan 2018
Link to “American Airlines Tells Flight Attendants Not to Hand Out Too Much Compensation” by Gary Leff on July 17, 2018
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Effective Monday 8 June 2020 American Airlines has taken away the tool airports, flight attendants, and reservations used to compensate customers when a crew member spills a drink on them, their seat is broken, or their inflight meal didn’t get loaded onto the aircraft.” This will continue throughout 2020. link to Gary Leff article.
Link to “American Airlines Flight Attendants Will Start Offering Onboard Compensation This Month” by Gary Leff, The Boarding Area, 11 Jan 2018
Link to “American Airlines Tells Flight Attendants Not to Hand Out Too Much Compensation” by Gary Leff on July 17, 2018
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Jan 11, 2018, 8:57 am
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AA iSolve F/A Onboard Miles Compensation as of Feb 2018 (restricted 8 Jun 2020)
Gary Leff announces that, in addition to AA FAs beginning de-escalation training this year to deal more effectively with onboard incidents involving upset passengers, new software on their tablets, ISolve, will be installed to let them address compensable incidents like broken seats or non-working IFE on the spot.
The new software will allow flight attendants to offer on-the-spot compensation in the form of AAdvantage miles when specific inconveniences happen inflight — that is if the passenger in question is enrolled in AA’s frequent traveler program.
Those inflight inconveniences might include such things as inflight entertainment issues, broken seats or meal shortages. Link to Gary Leff, The Boarding Area, 11 Jan 2018
Those inflight inconveniences might include such things as inflight entertainment issues, broken seats or meal shortages. Link to Gary Leff, The Boarding Area, 11 Jan 2018
Jan 11, 2018, 9:08 am
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Gary Leff announces that, in addition to AA FAs beginning de-escalation training this year to deal more effectively with onboard incidents involving upset passengers, new software on their tablets, ISolve, will be installed to let them address compensable incidents like broken seats or non-working IFE on the spot.
Jan 11, 2018, 10:33 am
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Didn't United used to do this? If you pointed out a bad seat, headphone jack, etc., they would then give you a cert that you could submit for miles.
I hope that the hardware issues are actually logged and fixed.
I hope that the hardware issues are actually logged and fixed.
Jan 11, 2018, 11:04 am
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Don't get your hopes up too high. They'll be preset with compensation amounts based upon item being disputed, length of flight, and cabin of service, so the FA can't just give away 'X' amount to you just because you didn't get your choice of food (Pre-orders are GREAT), cabin temperature too hot or too cold, or didn't like the video you watched on your personal device was too graphic.
again, miles will be preset per the item being complained about, length of flight, and your cabin of service you are sitting in.
again, miles will be preset per the item being complained about, length of flight, and your cabin of service you are sitting in.
Jan 11, 2018, 11:09 am
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Don't get your hopes up too high. They'll be preset with compensation amounts based upon item being disputed, length of flight, and cabin of service, so the FA can't just give away 'X' amount to you just because you didn't get your choice of food (Pre-orders are GREAT), cabin temperature too hot or too cold, or didn't like the video you watched on your personal device was too graphic.
again, miles will be preset per the item being complained about, length of flight, and your cabin of service you are sitting in.
again, miles will be preset per the item being complained about, length of flight, and your cabin of service you are sitting in.
Jan 11, 2018, 11:24 am
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Don't get your hopes up too high. They'll be preset with compensation amounts based upon item being disputed, length of flight, and cabin of service, so the FA can't just give away 'X' amount to you just because you didn't get your choice of food (Pre-orders are GREAT), cabin temperature too hot or too cold, or didn't like the video you watched on your personal device was too graphic.
again, miles will be preset per the item being complained about, length of flight, and your cabin of service you are sitting in.
again, miles will be preset per the item being complained about, length of flight, and your cabin of service you are sitting in.
Jan 11, 2018, 11:25 am
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Jan 11, 2018, 12:10 pm
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Here's a thread from four years again with 15K miles on Delta for non-working IFE. AA solves that by pulling out AVOD.
Windows Phone and On-Board Compensation
Windows Phone and On-Board Compensation
Jan 11, 2018, 12:32 pm
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As a consumer, I never thought AAdvantage miles as compensation is a best deal. Will receiving AAdvantage miles on spot during the flight be considered as case closed and resolved as far as AA is concerned? Often it is better to give time to think about the situation. Get off the flight and give a day or two to think about the situation to rationalize exactly how minor or how serious the situation was. Giving AAdvantage miles on spot during the flight will not give a chance for passengers to think about the whole situation, won’t have time to think if miles given was fair or not.
Jan 11, 2018, 3:55 pm
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Don't get your hopes up too high. They'll be preset with compensation amounts based upon item being disputed, length of flight, and cabin of service, so the FA can't just give away 'X' amount to you just because you didn't get your choice of food (Pre-orders are GREAT), cabin temperature too hot or too cold, or didn't like the video you watched on your personal device was too graphic.
again, miles will be preset per the item being complained about, length of flight, and your cabin of service you are sitting in.
again, miles will be preset per the item being complained about, length of flight, and your cabin of service you are sitting in.
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Jan 11, 2018, 4:21 pm
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Exactly. I just retired from AA HDQ a few weeks ago and my group was involved with this initiative. The goal is not only to be more responsive but to reduce the volume of formal complaints being submitted to customer relations and they prefer to avoid issuing vouchers when possible. They think it will save money but I expect it will cost them more in the end as not everyone wants to bother with submitting a formal complaint to CR and the F/As will likely comp anyone they are able to comp. Agents should have the Isolve tool as well if they aren't using it already.
Not to be cynical, but how do the FAs view this? Is it empowering or burdensome? Is there some kind of performance metric to hold FAs accountable? It would be interesting to hear about the viewpoint of folks in the trenches, in the front lines, as it were.