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Reimagining Customer Service at KLM Using Facebook and Twitter

April 30, 2014 | Gerald C. Kane | Marketing

For KLM, social business arose as a spontaneous response to the Icelandic volcanic eruption that spewed ash into Europe's airspace for days, halting all air travel and stranding thousands of passengers. Since the abrupt birth of the airlines' social business strategy, e-commerce senior vice president Martijn van der Zee has made the company a model for using social in customer service.

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