This is the social media strategy of Lufthansa USA, as shared during the Eye4Travel "Social Media in Travel" conference in San Francisco, on March 2, 2011.
Lufthansa has exclusively made this presentation available to SimpliFlying.com
Lufthansa in Social Media- customer engagement strategy
1. Travel made Social -
Social Media Best Practice for Airlines
Nicola Lange, Director Marketing and
Customer Relations, The Americas
Lufthansa German Airlines
San Francisco, March 2nd
2. Lufthansa: Corporate facts & figures, Jan-Sep 2010
Lufthansa Airline Group
Revenue: 15.4bn EUR
Employees: 56,965
Lufthansa Technik LSG Sky Chefs
Revenue: 3.0bn EUR Revenue: 1.7bn EUR
Employees: 20,244 Employees: 28,435
Lufthansa Cargo Lufthansa Systems
Revenue: 2.0bn EUR Revenue: 0.4bn EUR
Employees: 4,499 Employees: 2,955
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3. Lufthansa offers a global network
Cities Countries
Europa: 148 42
North America: 22 3
South America: 4 4
Middle East: 15 12
Africa: 38 31
Asia / Pacific: 29 14
= 10.623 flights per week,
… from Frankfurt 256 cities in 106 countries
… from Munich … from Zurich … from Vienna
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4. Lufthansa product
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5. Until 2009 we had multiple marketing activities across the board,
cross channel integration and enhanced interactive experience
lufthansa.com Online Media
eCRM
Sweeps
Interactive Social
Video Experience Media
Email Search
Mobile OOH
Print
Radio Collateral
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6. But there was a bigger opportunity for greater impact by turning
Lufthansa into a Most LinkedTM Airline Brand
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7. Being the Most Linked is about creating breadth and depth for the brand
through as many relevant engagements, inspired by your core brand values.
Most Linked
Word-of-mouth Greater brand equity Conversations not messages
Visibility
Hits Bigger digital footprint Community not audience
Value
Shareability Multiple engagements Engagements not touchpoints
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8. Major social media marketing activities and milestones in the U.S.
during the last 18 months
February 2011: Catch
the A380 Crew
February 2011:
A 380 Seat Tweet
November 2010:
Cloudstream
April 2010:
April/May 2010:
iPhone Campaign
MySkyStatus
2.0
MySkyStatus
Mobile
Oktober 2009:
MySkyStatus
Oktober 2009: Launch
Twitter Account
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9. Brand Campaign 2009: With MySkyStatus we started to add utilities to the
strategic marketing mix and we continued this strategy in 2010.
www.Lufthansa.com Print Advertising /
Out of Home Advertising
Smooth sailing
Network
Product microsite
Flight tracker call-to-action
Campaign home
Added utilities
Longer fairytales Marketing URL
Network
Flight tracker call-to-action
MySkyStatus
Utility Banners Utility 2
Flight tracker call-to-action
Utility 3
Search E-Mail
“Lufthansa Flight Status” Utility 4
Online Banner / Search Landing page with utility Free (Social) Media
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12. MySkyStatus generated some impressive results in only 3 months
229,208 visits (29.01.2010)
> 35,667 Tweets
from 184 countries
> 509,978 pages views
Average time spent: 1:21 (min.)
71,300 Google search results
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13. MySkyStatus Results 8 weeks after launch
!
Goals As of December 4
Receive 100K clicks from paid media 30,000 clicks from paid media
Receive 10K clicks from viral +140,000 clicks from unpaid media
1,750 Tweets +16,000 Tweets
30 Google search results +48,000 Google search results
20 member in our facebook fan page (without any 466 member in our facebook fan page (without any
promotion) promotion)
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14. With MySkyStatus 2.0 we migrated the application to a more
robust IT platform allowing several additional features
453,363 total visitors since the launch in 2009
354,255 unique visits since launch in 2009
3,969 total registered users since launch (May 2010)
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Lufthansa German Airlines
15. MySkyStatus was successful because…
It’s a one of a kind tool and it fulfills a travelers needs
Ease of use, the tool is simple and user
friendly
The tool is offered to all travelers, not just Lufthansa
It’s viral, traveler’s friends learn about
MySkyStatus just by following them
on facebook and twitter
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16. Mobile MySkyStatus launched on April 1st with our Spring Strategic
Campaign 2010 and had more than 360,000 visits since then mobile
MySkyStatus
portal version
Account Settings
Viral push
MySkyStatus
Button on Lufthansa mobile
portal linking to
MySkyStatus mobile portal
5
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17. Who can help us?
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18. Reach – over 5 million with ten Tweets
1.99 Million
1.57 Million
481 Thousand
448 Thousand
Posted two consecutive days
288 Thousand
121 Thousand
62 Thousand
53 Thousand
47 Thousand
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19. In December of 2010 we introduced our latest innovation in digital and
social media marketing, a utility called CloudStream.
Results by Feb 2010:
• 27,796 visits
• 5,657 carry on’s
• 12,300 google
search results for
“Lufthansa
CloudStream”
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20. Lufthansa Facebook Page: 175,000 Fans
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21. Facebook local tab – 27,294 US based fans
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22. A380 SeatTweet - overview
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23. Twitter – 15,636 followers
4 day SeatTweet
sweepstakes
•Consistent and steady growth.
•Quality of followers not quantity
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24. Catch the A380 crew
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25. LH Social Media Fundamentals: Customer-involvement drives the
brand relationship as part of customer‘s daily life – beyond the flight
Social Media Marketing Mission:
“To help our customers to become better connected travelers – offline & online.”
1. Be there where our customers are
2. Create digital benefits
3. „Social features“ along the travel chain
MemberScout
4. Share the affinity to the brand
5. Focus, cooperation & co-marketing
Activities are chosen depending on the target group, reach and level of engagement
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26. A strong brand is a trustful brand which is also reliable
when it counts in crisis situations
• Integration of Social Media in crisis team
• Realtime status updates of situation
• Taking pressure away from call centers
• Knowing customer‘s questions & needs
• Taking care of customers by all means
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