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Frankfurt Airport: From Airport to Global Omnichannel Travel and Shopping Hub

About the Case Study

How can an international airport digitalize its business model and transform its online offering into an omnichannel travel retail and shopping hub? Frankfurt Airport was faced with this task. To meet this challenge, the airport asked AOE to develop and build a completely new line of business. The aim of the project was to provide passengers with relevant information, shopping options and services in the right place at the right time. With AOE, Frankfurt became the first digital airport in the world.

Business Benefits

  • Omnichannel solution
  • Window of revenue opportunity open 24/7
  • Additional marketplace for airport’s partners
  • No cannibalization of sales
  • Deeper relationships

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Digital Transformation

Offline business at Frankfurt Airport is transformed into an all-in-one commerce suite. Business intelligence and personalization optimize the customer journey.

Unique Travel Retail Suite

Travel- and shopping mall concept integrates offer of numerous retailers with the help of more than 30 systems. The solution grows with customer needs and develops new business segments.

New Commerce Concept

Unique new omnichannel retail concept simplifies seamless on- and offline shopping for passengers. Platform cross-links travel information, services, local stores and online shopping.

Management Summary:
Omnichannel Airport Commerce

Within one year, AOE implemented an E-Commerce/online mall concept, including system architecture, in which a large number of merchants with their systems and product ranges had to be integrated into a single E-Commerce marketplace. An agile team of up to 80 people mastered particular challenges by integrating some 30 systems, connecting a large number of dealer systems and product ranges, and collaborating with various service providers. In addition to the architecture and logistics of the numerous functions, all legacy systems and the loyalty program had to be integrated.

The new solution offers passengers a variety of helpful options for planning and carrying out their travel, for online and offline shopping at the airport and for using Frankfurt Airport services. Passengers can find out about products and shop in advance or during their stay and layover times at Frankfurt Airport, which considerably increases the time window for shopping, makes good use of available time and thus boosts sales. For retailers, the platform is an additional marketplace that makes all shops directly available to customers and can deliver all products in a maximum of 45 minutes.

Kai Schmidhuber

Senior Vice President Multichannel eCommerce, CRM & Strategy / Fraport AG
Together with AOE we were faced with the enormous challenge of transferring our offering into the digital era. The result is a unique solution for the travel and retail industries that unites complex on- and offline services and provides the optimal travel experience for our customers, regardless of whether they want to shop, merely inform themselves or use our numerous services.

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