PhilippinesAirline (LCC)Scale · $100K
Cebu Pacific

When the typhoon hits, every Juan gets rebooked by conversation — not by queueing at NAIA

Cebu Pacific's growth math multiplies passengers faster than any service team can grow; agentic disruption comms, rebooking, and travel-fund service keep ULCC economics intact through every storm season and seat sale.

Entry use case
Typhoon/disruption notification & self-serve rebooking
Expected outcome
Suppressed disruption contact spikes and faster reaccommodation across the network
Recommended next step
Disruption-playbook session with customer-care leadership: wire ops-control triggers to a proactive rebooking pilot before the next typhoon season peak.
What we understand

Cebu Pacific's operating reality

Cebu Pacific carried a record ~27M passengers in 2025, up around 10% year-on-year, cementing its position as the Philippines' largest budget carrier.

Public fact

The airline has committed to major Airbus fleet growth, with a landmark narrowbody order reported at up to $24B list value — capacity that implies proportional service volume.

Public fact

The Philippines averages roughly 20 tropical cyclones a year; weather disruption is an annual operating certainty for any Philippine carrier.

Public fact

Piso-sale promo events create booking and service surges that resemble e-commerce flash sales more than airline norms.

Reasoned inference

Refund and travel-fund status inquiries likely dominate post-disruption contact volume, as with all LCCs.

Reasoned inference

Validate with the account team before outreach: PSS API access for in-channel rebooking confirmation · Travel-fund system integration readiness · Current disruption-day contact volumes and BPO surge costs

Build vs buy

Why we have a right to win here

Buy-led target

Limited internal ability or appetite to build the core platform — strong candidate for the packaged solution

Evidence: A ULCC with a disciplined cost culture and no consumer-AI engineering organization; it buys fleet, systems, and services from vendors — service automation will be bought as a measurable outcome, not built.

Why they won't build the full stack: Every peso of engineering ambition goes to operations and fleet economics; conversational AI is a vendor category for an airline this lean, and speed to deployment matters ahead of each typhoon season.

What management is signalling

Record ~27M passengers in 2025 (up around 10%) with net income more than doubling, and a firm order for 70 A321neos committing to sustained capacity growth.

Reported factFY2025 results and fleet announcements · Jan–Feb 2026

GTM implication: Passenger growth is contractually committed via the order book while service capacity is not — sell elasticity so growth does not degrade disruption CX or ULCC unit costs.

What already exists (don't pitch this)
  • Cebu Pacific app and website self-service
  • Charlie chatbot for basic queries
  • Travel-fund ledger and refund workflows
  • Viber and social-media care channels
What customers still can't do end-to-end (pitch this)
  • →In-channel disruption rebooking at spike scale
  • →Live refund and travel-fund status without agent lookup
  • →Surge-elastic support during piso-sale events
  • →Taglish and Cebuano voice coverage
Opportunity map

Where agentic communications pays off first

WorkflowWhy it matters hereValueComplexitySpeedChannels
Disruption notify & self-serve rebooking
Affected passengers get options in-channel and confirm rebooking without touching a counter.
Typhoon cancellations strand thousands simultaneously; counters and hotlines cannot scale to the event.
Friction today: Gate announcements and generic advisories; rebooking requires human queues at the worst moment.
In-appViber/WhatsAppSMSVoice
Refund & travel-fund status
Live status answers plus proactive stage updates from filing to credit or payout.
Post-disruption status calls are the airline's largest repeat-contact category.
Friction today: Opaque timelines drive weekly follow-up calls and complaints.
Viber/WhatsAppIn-app
Seat-sale surge support
Elastic conversational support that resolves payment and booking issues during the surge itself.
Piso sales spike booking issues, payment failures, and change requests within hours.
Friction today: Fixed support capacity meets flash-sale demand; abandonment and complaints spike.
In-appViber/WhatsApp
Watch the change

Typhoon/disruption notification & self-serve rebooking: today vs the agentic model

Scenario: Signal No. 3 cancels the evening Manila–Cebu bank; every passenger gets rebooking options by Viber before reaching the airport, and the counter queue never forms.
Today
same interaction, two worlds
Agentic layer
Disruption call spike
10× volume, melted queues
suppressed by proactive rebooking
Assumption
Cost per contact
$13.50 median assisted
$1.84 median self-service
Benchmark
QA coverage
1–2% sampled
100% scored
Platform capability
Sources & assumptions
  • · Disruption call spike: Operator-reported pattern (assumption); suppression measured in pilot
  • · Cost per contact: Gartner customer service cost benchmarks, 2024
  • · QA coverage: Platform capability: every interaction logged and evaluated
  • · Gartner, customer service cost benchmarks (2024): $13.50 median assisted vs $1.84 self-service per contact
  • · McKinsey, digital-first collections research: 20–25% NPL reduction among leaders; up to 40% opex reduction with gen AI
  • · Baymard Institute: ~70% average cart abandonment (meta-analysis)
  • · IAMAI–Kantar via IBEF (2025): 900M+ Indian internet users; 98% consume Indic-language content
  • · LeadSquared and vendor funnel studies: 78% of students choose the first institution to respond (directional, vendor data)
  • · HDI / ITSM operator benchmarks: $15–25 per L1 ticket; 40–60% of L1 volume is resets/status (validate per customer)
  • · Conventional-flow wait times and volumes are typical operator patterns — assumptions to replace with the customer's own baseline
  • · Agentic-flow behaviors (context retention, 100% logging, in-line policy checks) are platform capabilities, not projections
Recommended solution

One integrated stack, opinionated for this account

Channels · Tilicho Labs
In-appViber/WhatsAppSMSVoice

Voice & channel orchestration, telephony, conversational execution, session/state, routing, integration build. Capability coverage validated during implementation.

Intelligence · Google Cloud
Gemini reasoningEnterprise groundingWorkflow agentsMulti-agent orchestrationGoverned actionsEvaluation & analytics
Systems · Cebu Pacific
Ops controlReservation system (PSS)Refund workflowTravel-fund ledgerBooking enginePayment gateway

API access to these systems is the critical-path dependency.

Trust & languages
Filipino/TagalogEnglishCebuano

Identity-bound sessions, policy-bounded actions, 100% audit logging, human approvals at defined points, in-tenant intelligence.

Business case

The economics, with your numbers

Addressable monthly interactions1.8M
Seller assumption — replace in discovery
Current cost per interaction ($)$0.9
Industry benchmark scale — validate
Automation / assistance rate (%)55%
Seller assumption — pilot proves this
$1.6M
Current operating cost / mo
$6.5M
Modelled gross benefit / yr
0.2 mo
Payback on Scale
155%
3-yr ROI (modelled)
Automated/assisted interactions per month990K
Modelled AI run-cost per month (usage + cloud, system estimate)$347K
New monthly operating cost$1.1M

All figures are modelling estimates from the labeled inputs above — nothing here is customer-provided yet. The pilot's first job is replacing these assumptions with Cebu Pacific's measured baseline. Package price covers implementation only; recurring usage billed separately.

Recommended package

Scale — $100K implementation

Scale · $100K · A multi-channel production deployment10–14 weeks to production across priority workflows

Why this package for Cebu Pacific: Disruption comms, refund/travel-fund service, and seat-sale surge support are multiple workflows across channels — Scale scope aligned to a growing network.

Included
  • 4–6 channels
  • 2–3 priority workflows
  • Multiple enterprise integrations
  • API credential & security setup
  • Advanced orchestration
  • Multilingual support
  • Agent Assist / human escalation
  • Production analytics
  • Expansion roadmap
Not included
  • ✕Usage & consumption (billed separately)
  • ✕Enterprise-wide governance build-out
  • ✕Multi-BU rollout
Recurring costs (separate from the package)

Packages cover implementation and integration only. Recurring costs are billed separately: Tilicho Labs platform usage (~$0.15/call-min indicative, usage only), Google Cloud consumption, telephony/carrier charges, managed operations, and support & optimization. No package includes unlimited usage.

Customer resources required
  • · API access + credentials for: Ops control, Reservation system (PSS), Refund workflow
  • · A named business owner for typhoon/disruption notification & self-serve rebooking
  • · Security review counterpart and policy sign-off (Ops control scope)
  • · Baseline metrics for the pilot's success thresholds
Executive messages

What to say to whom

CEO

“Your fleet order doubles the operation; your service model cannot double with it. Agentic disruption service is how passenger growth outruns headcount growth.”

CIO / CTO

“Integration is ops-control feeds plus the PSS — one architecture that then serves every new route and aircraft you add.”

COO

“Every typhoon currently costs you counter chaos and melted hotlines. Proactive rebooking moves that load to software the moment ops control makes the call.”

Head of Customer Care & Commercial

“Passengers rebooked in-channel stay revenue; passengers queueing for refunds become detractors. The travel-fund status agent alone kills your biggest repeat-contact driver.”

Chief Risk / Compliance Officer

“Consistent, logged passenger communications strengthen CAB consumer-protection compliance and complaint defense after every disruption event.”

CFO / Procurement

“ULCC discipline applies to service too: consumption-priced conversations flex to zero on blue-sky days and absorb typhoon peaks without surge staffing.”

Outreach

Pre-built offer emails for Cebu Pacific

Written from this account's own research — the strategic signal, the capability gap, the entry workflow, and the modelled economics — not a mail-merge template. Pick the moment and the persona, edit anything, then copy or open in your mail client.

Moment in the deal
Cold outreach — no prior conversation
Who it's addressed to
Cares about: The workflow itself and its daily failure modes
Register
Length
Draft — edit freely before sending
Open in mail client

Customer-safe by construction: drafts are composed only from customer-facing fields. Account tier, build-vs-buy classification, priority score, internal routing, and partner-commercial detail are not inputs to the composer, so they cannot appear in a draft. Money figures are always framed as modelled from the customer's own volumes. Read before sending — you own what goes out.

The pursuit

Tier 2 — high-potential incubation

Why this tier

The Philippines' largest low-cost carrier at a record ~27M annual passengers with an aggressive fleet-growth order book — structurally exposed to typhoon disruption with ULCC-thin service staffing.

Recommended next step

Disruption-playbook session with customer-care leadership: wire ops-control triggers to a proactive rebooking pilot before the next typhoon season peak.

Entry: Typhoon/disruption notification & self-serve rebooking · Scale package · 10–14 weeks to production across priority workflows. Human fallback throughout; success thresholds agreed before build.

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