Refund Automation

Refund Automation using RPA

The refund process followed airlines is a cumbersome procedure that involves functions Digital Contact Centres, Finance/Accounts, and Audit and Compliance at different stages to perform their tasks manually. The excessive human intervention not only prolongs the resolution time but make the entire process prone to errors. The manual process results in financial losses and customer dissatisfaction.

IGT’s Refund Automation using RPA is a rule based task automation solution for high volume of refund processing cycle in Finance Operations for Low-Cost Carrier (LCC) airlines. Deploying the solution in the process reduces the transaction time by 50%, leads to lesser manpower requirements, better quality and compliance, and reduced cases for re-work due to human errors.

IGT Offerings

Refund Automation using RPA is a hybrid solution that performs the steps for checking refund eligibility and approves it for payment release post amount validation. Leveraging the integration with airline’s PSS APIs like Navitaire New Skies, the solution involves bots performing calculations as per the defined business rules ensuing efficient and timely refunds.

For any fall outs in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) automated process that require human intervention, exceptional scenarios are recorded and notified to be managed manually.

IGT’s Refund Automation using RPA has the following features:

Centralizes all incoming refunds requests from various channels like chat, email, website etc.
Automates time-consuming repeatable yet essential pre-requisite task of opening and closing flights.
Is scalable and can be trained for complex scenarios with very few exceptions to be dealt by human.

Can apply to different functions of a LCC Airline like Operations (contact center agents, back office, finance team etc.), Audit and compliance, and Re-validation / Quality Assurance
Works with all versions of MS Office
Potentially a plug and play solution for airlines using Navitaire New Skies for processing refunds

IGT’s Refund Automation using RPA solution is readily available on the

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IGT BPM Services And Solutions

IGT provides front office and back office BPM services through its Global Delivery Model from 15 locations worldwide and support in over 20 languages.

Sales & Reservations

Loyalty Programs

Social Media Management

Debit Memo Research

Content Management

Baggage Helpdesk

Refunds & Claim Processing

Irregular Operations (IROPS)

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Digital Contact Centers

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Delivering 77.5% Efficiency Gain through Automating BSP Refund

IGT supported the Airline Refunds team of a leading US airline by developing RPA based bot and an auto-decision making module that reduced the manual processing and delivered 77.5% efficiency gains.

Travel Technology Trends-2019

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