Airports and Aviation

Resolved on the concourse for airports.

Passengers move through your terminal in ninety minutes. A restroom that goes unserviced, a queue that runs long, a concession that gets an order wrong. Each one is recoverable while the passenger is still airside, and permanent after they board.

AIRPORTS
  • Hold room and gate codes
  • Restroom service triggers
  • Checkpoint and queue reporting
  • Concession and retail counters
  • Concourse and wayfinding signage
  • Parking, curbside, and ground transportation
  • Employee and contractor reporting
  • Post-trip mobile web app

Every touchpoint routes to a named owner with a timestamp.

Where it breaks

Three things that cost you money in airports.

01

Most of the terminal is not yours to control

Concessionaires, custodial contractors, ground handlers, and security each hold part of the passenger experience. None of them hold all of it, and the picture only assembles after everyone has gone home.

02

Passengers do not file complaints, they post

Only one in twenty-six unhappy customers complains to the business. In an airport, where the passenger is transient and the interaction is brief, that ratio is worse.

Source: Esteban Kolsky, ThinkJar Research

03

Non-aeronautical revenue follows sentiment

A passenger who cannot find a clean restroom does not stop for coffee. Friction upstream of the concession is lost spend downstream of it, and it never appears in a survey.

How it works here

Capture, route, act. Configured for your operation.

  1. 01STEP 01

    Capture

    Codes at hold rooms, restrooms, concession counters, and checkpoint queues. A passenger or a staff member reports from exactly where they are standing, in one tap, no download.

  2. 02STEP 02

    Route

    A restroom flag on Concourse B routes to the custodial contractor responsible for Concourse B, with location and timestamp. A concession complaint routes to that operator, not to airport administration.

  3. 03STEP 03

    Act and invite

    The issue is resolved while the passenger is still airside and the response time is logged against the contract standard. After the trip, every eligible passenger receives the same invitation to review.

Where we listen, and who acts

A signal nobody owns is just a notification.

Every listening point is tied to a location, and every location is tied to a named owner. That pairing is the whole mechanism.

WHERE WE LISTEN

  • Hold room and gate codes
  • Restroom service triggers
  • Checkpoint and queue reporting
  • Concession and retail counters
  • Concourse and wayfinding signage
  • Parking, curbside, and ground transportation
  • Employee and contractor reporting
  • Post-trip mobile web app

Codes are dynamic. Each one carries its own location, so the report arrives already knowing where it came from.

WHO NEEDS THE SIGNAL

  • Custodial contractor, by concourse

    Restroom and cleanliness reports carrying the concourse, the room, and the time, against their own service standard

  • Concession and retail operators

    Order, wait, and counter reports for their unit only, so the tenant sees the tenant's problem

  • Terminal duty manager

    Queue build, wayfinding failures, and accessibility requests while the passenger is still airside

  • Public safety and operations control

    Discreet concern reports with gate, hold room, and timestamp attached

  • Airport leadership and properties

    Contractor and concessionaire performance, assembled as evidence for contract review

Modern stakeholder listening

The people closest to the problem are rarely the ones being asked.

VOICE OF THE EMPLOYEE

The digital suggestion box, rebuilt for real time.

Gate agents, custodial crews, and concession staff watch a queue build or a restroom fail long before a passenger says anything to anyone.

Give them a private channel that takes seconds to use. Employees can surface ideas, operational concerns, process breakdowns, safety issues, and recognition for a colleague, anonymously where that is enabled. Every submission routes to a named owner, carries a status, and is closed out, then rolls up into the same reporting leadership already reads.

BEYOND LEGACY TEXT-IN REPORTING

One scan. Zero unnecessary friction.

Inbound text-to-report still asks the same thing it always did: remember a number or a keyword, stop what you are doing, open a messaging app, type the issue from a blank field, then describe where you are standing. Most people do not bother.

  • A short code asks the reporter to supply the context
  • A Trigger Code already carries the location and the context

Outbound messaging stays a valid channel for follow-up and confirmation. The friction being removed is on the way in.

What leadership receives

The signal matters today. The pattern matters tomorrow.

Individual moments are resolved on the floor. Read together across a month, they become the management agenda for airports.

IN THE REPORT

  • Restroom condition reports mapped against service intervals, concourse by concourse
  • Checkpoint and gate queue friction by hour and day of week
  • Concessionaire and custodial response performance, unit by unit, against contract standard
  • Wayfinding, accessibility, and ground transportation request clusters
  • Parking and curbside friction separated from terminal friction
  • Emerging issues confined to a single gate or hold room, before they generalize

WHAT CHANGES IN THE BUSINESS

Non-aeronautical revenue

Passengers who are not fighting a queue or hunting for a clean restroom spend downstream. Friction upstream of a concession is lost spend that never appears in a survey.

Contract accountability

Response performance by contractor and concessionaire, timestamped, so a service standard becomes something you can hold a tenant to at renewal.

Passenger satisfaction programs

The periodic passenger survey you already run tells you the score. This tells you which touchpoint moved it, and gives you a term to act inside.

Safety and incident response

A concern raised discreetly from a hold room reaches operations control in the same minute, instead of surfacing in an after-action review.

What matters most here

Most Relevant Capabilities for Airports

The full platform ships with every deployment. These are the capabilities that carry the weight in your operation.

Trigger Codes™

Guests, employees, and other stakeholders scan a code to report an issue or request assistance from exactly where they are standing.

Intelligent Routing

Every response reaches the person who can resolve it, with location and context attached.

On-Site Insights™

Your guests and employees become the operational eyes and ears of the property.

Keyword Alerts

Additional escalation when specific safety or security terms appear in feedback.

Executive Dashboards

Real-time visibility for leadership, timestamped accountability for operators.

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Feature spotlight

Second Chance Alert for airports

Frequent flyers repeat the same terminal weekly. When a passenger who reported a problem last month checks in again, the duty manager knows before they reach the gate.

  • Know the moment someone with prior negative feedback returns
  • Managers receive the original feedback and the prior response
  • Convert the return into a recovery moment before they leave again
SECOND CHANCE ALERT
NOW

Returning guest with prior issue

Your manager is alerted with the context needed to create a better experience while the guest is still on the property.

REAL TIME

return alerts

FULL

issue context

1:1

recovery moment

Our clients

Deployed and supported by Get Real Time Feedback.

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Georgia Aquarium

ATLANTA, GEORGIA

A high-volume attraction in our home market. Real-time guest, employee, and operational signal captured across the visit and routed to the team on the floor.

Client deployment delivered and supported by Get Real Time Feedback. The image above is a licensed aquarium photograph used to set the environment. It is not a photograph of this deployment.

REFERENCES

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Supporting platform references

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Gina Chapa

VP of Guest Experience, American Airlines Center

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This model applies published third-party research coefficients to the figures you entered. It is an illustrative estimate of exposure, not a projection of results from Get Real Time Feedback. Complaint rate: Esteban Kolsky, ThinkJar Research. Word-of-mouth coefficient: nine people told, 50 percent deterred. Defection band: 25 to 50 percent of silent detractors. The Luca rating-to-revenue coefficient is derived from independent restaurants and is not applied to this sector. The revenue driver shown is retention of repeat users, modeled at a 5 to 15 percent recovery rate.

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