Ramesh Mandal
IndiGo Airlines · 2023

IndiGo Holidays Marketplace

Personalised hotel bundles driving ancillary revenue growth.

IndiGo Holidays Marketplace
Role
UX lead
Timeframe
2023
Surface
Holiday & hotel bundling
Focus
Ancillary growth
01 — Context

Turn a flight into a trip

The opportunity was to extend a booking into a holiday — hotels, bundles — without turning a focused airline app into a cluttered travel bazaar.

02 — Challenge

Relevance and trust, at the moment of intent

A generic “add a hotel” prompt is noise. To earn the upsell, the offer had to feel chosen for this traveller, this route, these dates — with pricing clear enough to trust at a glance.

03 — Decisions

Personalised bundles, placed with intent

  • Personalised hotel bundles tied to the booked route and dates, not a generic catalogue.
  • Honest value — the bundle’s worth versus booking separately, shown plainly.
  • Right moment — surfaced where the traveller is already thinking about the trip, not mid-checkout.
04 — Outcomes

Relevance paid off

+22%Ancillary revenue
Personalisation earns the upsell. Relevance beats volume, every time.
Lesson

You don’t grow ancillaries by asking more often — you grow them by asking better, at the moment the answer is obviously yes.

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