With air travel flying out of the pandemic blues, India’s largest IT services provider TCS finds multiple opportunities opening up in the aviation space, including customer experience, cloud, and airport services, said a senior executive.
When the pandemic struck in 2020, travel was one of the worst-affected sectors as countries went into lockdown restricting travel. However, recent times have seen travel resuming.
Girish Ramachandran, President of TCS Asia Pacific, in a recent interaction said that going by the industry estimates, global air travel will reach 88 percent of its pre-COVID levels in 2022. “We don’t know whether much of it is true because of what is happening on the Omicron front but you know we expect that if at least people have started travelling around.”
However, this means that the airlines and airports have to reimagine how people travel. Ramachandran explained that with the pandemic, needs of customers have changed, and the current way of customer experience, which involves multiple partners in the airline and airport ecosystem, has been a threat.
This is opening up opportunities for IT companies in the aviation sector. A case-in-point is the multi-million-dollar deal the company has signed with the Hong Kong-based Plaza Premium Group (PPG), which is in the airport services space, to transform the airport experience.
Through this partnership, TCS will develop an end-to-end digital platform, Passenger Services Technology for PPG, to improve customer experience and operational excellence at its 70 airport locations that serve 20 million passengers annually. The idea is also to reimagine the end-to-end airport travel experience across three core areas of customer experience, employee experience, and operational excellence.
TCS is piloting this in the Bengaluru airport across 32 services. Over a period of time, this service will be expanded to other parts of the world, he added. Apart from airport services, the company is also looking at opportunities in customer experience, and cloudification in aviation.
28/12/21 Swathi Moorthy & Chandr
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