IndonesiaAirline (LCC)Scale · $100K
Lion Air Group

Disruption communications for the archipelago's biggest airline group — every delay explained before the counter queue forms

Multi-brand LCC economics leave no room for large service teams, yet weather and utilization make disruption constant; agentic notify-and-rebook conversations absorb the spikes human staffing never could.

Entry use case
Proactive delay/cancellation notification & rebooking
Expected outcome
Suppressed disruption contact spikes, fewer airport counter confrontations, faster reaccommodation
Recommended next step
Operations-and-commercial workshop: connect flight-status feeds to a proactive rebooking pilot on one high-disruption domestic sector.
What we understand

Lion Air Group's operating reality

Lion Air Group operates Indonesia's largest airline fleet across Lion Air, Batik Air, Wings Air, and Super Air Jet, plus affiliates abroad, on a dense archipelago network.

Public fact

Lion Air joined IATA in 2025 and operates large-scale seasonal programs such as Hajj charters — signals of an operational-standards push.

Public fact

Ultra-low-cost, high-utilization scheduling plus tropical weather makes delays and cancellations a structural feature; on-time performance has historically been a public pain point.

Public fact

Refund and reschedule handling is heavily manual across brands, generating repeat contacts and airport counter congestion.

Reasoned inference

Passengers are WhatsApp-first and often first-time flyers who need guidance in plain Bahasa Indonesia rather than airline jargon.

Reasoned inference

Validate with the account team before outreach: PSS/reservation-system API access for rebooking writeback · Which brand's operation is the most receptive first deployment · Current call-center and airport-counter cost baselines on IROPS days

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: An ultra-cost-focused, operations-led airline group with no consumer-software engineering tradition — it buys its systems (PSS, ops tools) from vendors and will buy service automation the same way.

Why they won't build the full stack: LCC margins fund aircraft, not software teams; there is no internal platform organization to build conversational AI, and the standards push behind IATA membership favors proven vendor solutions with clear accountability.

What management is signalling

IATA membership in 2025 and large seasonal operations such as Hajj charter programs signal an operational-standards push pursued under strict cost constraints.

Inferencepublic operational announcements (validate) · 2025

GTM implication: Position disruption communications as a standards upgrade that reduces cost — aligned with the IATA-era posture rather than a discretionary CX spend.

What already exists (don't pitch this)
  • Brand websites and booking apps across four carriers
  • Call centers and airport counters
  • Basic one-way SMS notifications
What customers still can't do end-to-end (pitch this)
  • →Proactive in-channel disruption rebooking
  • →Customer-visible refund and reschedule status
  • →Digital baggage-claim intake and tracking
  • →Plain-Bahasa guidance for first-time flyers
Opportunity map

Where agentic communications pays off first

WorkflowWhy it matters hereValueComplexitySpeedChannels
Proactive disruption notify & rebook
Affected passengers messaged with options before they reach the counter; rebooking confirmed in-channel.
Every delayed rotation cascades across the day's schedule; uninformed passengers become airport crowds and social-media storms.
Friction today: Announcements at the gate; rebooking only at counters; call center melts on bad-weather days.
WhatsAppSMSVoice
Refund & reschedule status
Live status answers and proactive stage updates from filing to payout.
Refund opacity drives repeat contacts and regulator complaints.
Friction today: Manual processing across brands with no customer-visible status.
WhatsAppVoice
Baggage irregularity claims
In-chat claim intake with photos, tracked to resolution with proactive updates.
Mishandled-bag claims are emotional, document-heavy, and brand-damaging when slow.
Friction today: Paper forms at airports; status by calling the station.
WhatsApp
Watch the change

Proactive delay/cancellation notification & rebooking: today vs the agentic model

Scenario: Weather holds a Wings Air turboprop in Ambon; every connecting passenger gets rebooking options by WhatsApp before landing, and the transfer desk stays calm.
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
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 · Lion Air Group
Ops control / flight statusReservation system (PSS)Refund workflowPayment systemsBaggage tracing (WorldTracer-class)Claims workflow

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

Trust & languages
Bahasa IndonesiaEnglish

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 interactions2.0M
Seller assumption — replace in discovery
Current cost per interaction ($)$0.6
Industry benchmark scale — validate
Automation / assistance rate (%)55%
Seller assumption — pilot proves this
$1.2M
Current operating cost / mo
$3.3M
Modelled gross benefit / yr
0.4 mo
Payback on Scale
70%
3-yr ROI (modelled)
Automated/assisted interactions per month1.1M
Modelled AI run-cost per month (usage + cloud, system estimate)$385K
New monthly operating cost$925K

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 Lion Air Group'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 Lion Air Group: Disruption comms, refund status, and baggage claims across four brands is inherently multi-workflow and multi-channel — a Scale deployment with per-brand rollout.

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 / flight status, Reservation system (PSS), Refund workflow
  • · A named business owner for proactive delay/cancellation notification & rebooking
  • · Security review counterpart and policy sign-off (Ops control / flight status scope)
  • · Baseline metrics for the pilot's success thresholds
Executive messages

What to say to whom

CEO

“Your cost base is the business model; your service reputation is the tax on it. Agentic disruption comms cut that tax without adding a single seat of headcount.”

CIO / CTO

“Integration is ops-control feeds plus the reservation system — one architecture serving all four brands with per-brand voice and policy.”

COO

“Every IROPS day currently costs you counter chaos and crew time explaining. Proactive comms move that load to software the moment the delay is known.”

Head of Commercial / Customer Service

“Reaccommodation speed is revenue protection: passengers rebooked in-channel stay booked with you instead of demanding refunds.”

Chief Risk / Compliance Officer

“Consistent, logged passenger communications strengthen your position on consumer-protection complaints and align with the standards push behind IATA membership.”

CFO / Procurement

“LCC math applies: consumption-priced conversations versus staffed spikes. The pilot quantifies avoided counter and call-center cost per disruption event.”

Outreach

Pre-built offer emails for Lion Air Group

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

Indonesia's largest carrier group (Lion Air, Batik Air, Wings Air, Super Air Jet) with structurally heavy disruption volume across an archipelago network — huge workflow fit, price-sensitive buyer.

Recommended next step

Operations-and-commercial workshop: connect flight-status feeds to a proactive rebooking pilot on one high-disruption domestic sector.

Entry: Proactive delay/cancellation notification & rebooking · Scale package · 10–14 weeks to production across priority workflows. Human fallback throughout; success thresholds agreed before build.

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