This is the fourth blog article in our series about the airline offer and order life cycle. Modern airline retailing requires transforming to a world of offers and orders to deliver the right offer to the right customer at the right time.
You’ve crafted a compelling airline offer—tailored, timely, and packed with value. But if it’s not presented clearly and visually, it may as well not exist. The moment of truth arrives when presenting that offer to the customer. A fantastic offer poorly presented is like a chef’s special that is not featured on the menu—if customers don’t see it, they won’t order it.
How, where, and in what format your airline’s offer is shown can make or break the purchase decision.
What is airline offer presentation?
Airline offer presentation is where data, design, and distribution converge. It’s the art and science of showcasing offers in ways that are accurate, compelling, and conversion-focused. Effective offer presentation merges best-in-class merchandising techniques with structured data—visuals, attributes, and logic—to meet traveler expectations and power seamless experiences across touchpoints. When travelers see what makes your offers different, they convert faster, churn less, and come back for more.
From airline websites to OTAs to NDC-enabled platforms, effective presentation in today’s modern airline retailing environment is not just about what the traveler sees—it’s about what enables that view behind the scenes.
It’s more than visuals
Today’s travelers often face an inconsistent experience when viewing flight options across sales channels. Without standardized visuals and structured data, comparing offers can be difficult, leading to decisions based on the lowest price. This inconsistency erodes airline brand value and creates friction in the buying journey.
Visuals matter—a lot. According to our annual flight shopper survey, 76% of travelers say visuals of in-flight services such as Wi-Fi and food influence their purchasing decisions. Your customers want to know what’s included, what it looks like, and what sets one offer apart from another—all before stepping on board. Whether it’s attributes like food, entertainment, in-seat power, seat type, legroom, or the entire aircraft layout, travelers want to be confident in what they’re purchasing, which can only happen when they’re shown photos, videos, and interactive imagery such as virtual tours.
While visuals like photos, videos, and virtual tours clearly drive engagement, the actual engine of offer presentation lies in structured data—fare and product attributes that enable consistent, scalable, and compliant displays across systems and sales channels, including NDC. It’s also what sets ATPCO’s approach apart.
How ATPCO enables smarter offer presentation
Helping airlines create and maintain their offers is at the core of what we do. ATPCO provides the standardized data and flexible content needed to enable clear, scalable, differentiated, and consistent offer presentation, no matter the sales channel or shopping context. Here’s how:
- Standardized content fit to your brand. Community Participation enables airlines to deliver consistent, accurate offer data—such as fare benefits, product features, and onboard services—across multiple distribution channels in alignment with modern retailing standards, empowering shoppers to effectively filter and compare available flight options.
- Modern, engaging displays with Routehappy. With Routehappy, airlines use targeted visuals (images, videos, and even virtual tours) along with attributes to differentiate products across routes, brands, and cabins. The solution’s Visuals and Attributes not only appeal to customers but also enable sales channels to ingest, filter, and display offer data dynamically and consistently.
- Branded Fares for even more differentiation. ATPCO’s Branded Fares supports fare grouping and attribute bundling, enabling airlines to display more of their value proposition to travelers before they book and ensure their offers show up in attribute-based flight searches.
Together, these solutions empower airlines and partners to present offers that are scalable, structured, and shoppable across sales channels.
Offer presentation is the moment of truth
Offer presentation is where your airline’s investment in offer creation and distribution either pays off with a purchase decision or falls flat. It’s the final handoff between you and the traveler, and it also represents a critical handshake between airline systems and the entire distribution ecosystem. Without structured attributes and scalable content, offer presentation—and by extension, modern retailing at scale—cannot succeed.
ATPCO makes that handoff smoother. By powering consistent offer presentation across platforms, we’re enabling airlines and their partners to deliver the right offer to the right customer at the right time with clarity and confidence.
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Read all the articles in our offer and order life cycle series
Part two: Creating airline offers: The crucial role of data
Part three: Smarter airline offer distribution: Strategy, tools, tech, and what’s next
