Aviation · Customer Experience Intelligence

We see what your passengers feel, and stay entirely unseen.

From the first booking click to the last bag on the carousel, certified evaluators fly your network as ordinary passengers, then hand you the truth in 24 hours.

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Audited across 2025 · eight regional groups · booking to baggage
The blind spot

The moments that decide loyalty happen when no one is watching.

Your internal audits capture what your crews know is being observed. Your surveys reach the few who bother to reply. The real experience, on a real Tuesday in seat 24C, stays invisible until it surfaces in the numbers and you're left guessing why.

<1%

of dissatisfied passengers ever complain. The other 99% simply don't fly you again, and they never tell you why.

The shift

Stop guessing what your passengers experienced. Start knowing.

Economy cabin aisle seen from a passenger seat during a full flight
Seat 24C · a real Tuesday

Today

  • Complaints, weeks late
  • Scores fall, unexplained
  • Crews briefed on hunches
  • Loyalty lost, quietly

With INCOG

  • Verified truth in 24 hours
  • Every score, traced to the moment
  • Coaching your crews can't dispute
  • The reason behind loyalty, early

Every touchpoint, booking to baggage. One continuous journey, observed.

A passenger doesn't experience your airline in departments. They experience one continuous journey, and so do we.

Beat 01 · Pre-flight

Booking

  • Contact centre, live chat, email and WhatsApp, where the journey begins.
  • The warmth, accuracy and patience a passenger meets before the airport.
  • The first booking click, measured with the same rigour as the flight itself.
Beat 02 · Airport

Lounge

  • Counter efficiency, the quality of a greeting, queue composure at check-in.
  • Access, comfort and quiet attentiveness in the premium pause.
  • Whether the space lives up to the promise made at the point of sale.
Beat 03 · Airport

Boarding

  • Announcement clarity, punctuality and priority handling, terminal to aircraft.
  • The composure of a gate under pressure.
Beat 04 · In the air

Cruise

  • Welcome, cabin condition and the rhythm of service.
  • A meal presented, not just served.
  • The hundred human moments at 40,000 feet.
Beat 05 · Post-flight

Arrival

  • The calm of disembarkation and a farewell delivered with genuine eye contact.
  • Carousel wait and the condition of a returned bag.
  • What made the flight exceptional, and where loyalty was won or lost.
What a survey can't reach

Everything a passenger feels, and a great deal they don't.

Across every phase we read the things that can't be surveyed: the warmth of a greeting, the pause before an answer, the difference between a meal served and a meal presented.

A greeting that means it The pause before an answer Grooming & presence Queue composure Eye contact on welcome A meal presented, not just served The cabin between services Tone under pressure A genuine farewell The condition of a returned bag

We won't list every question here. Some things are best left unseen, until they appear in your report.

How it works

Invisible in the cabin. Undeniable in the report.

Aircraft on final approach over the runway approach lights at dusk
Every rotation · observed
Step 01

Deploy

Certified, aviation-trained evaluators fly real flights as paying passengers. You never know when, or where.

Step 02

Observe

Every touchpoint captured as evidence: recordings, transcripts, timestamps, photographs. Nothing from memory.

Step 03

Verify

Each observation cross-checked against its evidence through a multi-stage review before a single score is set.

Step 04

Reveal

A verified report in 24–48 hours, and a living dashboard from day one. The unseen, made undeniable.

Not random shoppers.

Every evaluator is screened, tested and certified before their first assignment: aviation-trained, fluent in cabin-crew protocol and premium-service nuance. The rigour behind the report is the reason you can act on it.

Proprietary intelligence

Not a quarterly PDF. A living dashboard.

Every verified audit updates a real-time picture of your network, route by route and phase by phase, not a document that's already out of date the moment it's printed.

  • Star-rated service tiers, route by route
  • Phase-level breakdown across the full journey
  • NPS, CSAT & trend analysis over time
  • Every score backed by media evidence
+35%
CSAT uplift for a leading international carrier, within two audit cycles of acting on our findings.
Network PerformanceLive
82.4
Overall CSAT
76.1
In-flight
+35%
YoY uplift
Check-in88
Boarding74
In-flight79
Arrival90
Follow-up81

"After the first report, a carrier told us we had quietly changed how they brief their cabin crews."

Flight to verified report

Verified reports land in 24 to 48 hours of the flight, and the dashboard is live from day one. Your teams act before the next rotation, not the next quarter.

Global reach

From the Gulf to the world. Every route, every seat.

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Regional groups
Dubai
London
New York
São Paulo
Singapore
Tokyo
Delhi
Middle East
UAE · Saudi Arabia · Qatar · Kuwait · Oman · Bahrain · Jordan
South Asia
India · Pakistan · Bangladesh · Sri Lanka · Nepal
Europe
France · Spain · Italy · Germany · UK · Netherlands · Greece
Africa
Egypt · Morocco · Sudan · Kenya · Uganda
Central Asia
Kazakhstan · Uzbekistan · Kyrgyzstan
Asia Pacific
Thailand · Malaysia · Singapore
Caucasus
Azerbaijan · Georgia · Armenia
Türkiye & beyond
Türkiye · and expanding
City lights and the horizon seen through an aircraft window at dusk
The view we fly · 658+ routes
Why INCOG

Not generalists. Specialists.

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Aviation, not everything

Most research firms in the region audit every industry at once. We go deeper into aviation than anyone around us. It is our largest practice, not a line item on a menu.

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Booking to baggage

Eight phases, end to end. From the first contact-centre call to the last bag on the carousel, no part of the journey is invisible to us.

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Reporting in 24–48 hours

Aviation doesn't wait for quarterly decks. Verified intelligence reaches your team while it can still change the next rotation.

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Rated to a global standard

A proprietary platform that scores your network the way the world rates flying: star tiers, route comparisons and trends, every figure backed by evidence.

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MSPA-certified. Regional authority.

Certified to global mystery-shopping standards and operating across eight regional groups, with the cultural fluency distance-led firms simply can't replicate.

Questions,
answered.

Everything a Head of Customer Experience asks us in the first call.

They book and fly real flights as ordinary paying passengers. You are never told when or where we're flying, so what we observe is the experience your passengers actually receive, not a rehearsed one.

Verified reports land in 24–48 hours of the flight, with a live dashboard from day one, so your teams can act before the next rotation rather than the next quarter.

Every touchpoint from the first booking click to the last bag on the carousel, across eight phases and hundreds of criteria, including the intangibles a survey can't capture: warmth, tone, timing and presence.

Entirely. Engagements are discreet and GDPR-compliant, and every finding is handled as privileged, evidence-backed intelligence for your team only.

Every observation is captured as timestamped evidence: recordings, transcripts and photographs. Each one is cross-checked through a multi-stage review before a single score is set.

658+ routes across 135+ cities and 50+ countries, spanning eight regional groups. Tell us your priority routes and we build the programme around your network.

Request a proposal

See your network through the eyes of your most discerning passenger.

Tell us where you suspect the experience is slipping. We'll show you what a world-class aviation audit reveals, confidentially and without obligation.

Tell us about your network

A short brief. We reply within one business day.

Confidential & without obligation. Your brief goes straight to our aviation team.

Thank you. Your brief is in.

Our aviation team has it and we'll be in touch within one business day.

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