Couriers near the airport for delayed bag delivery
The best couriers near the airport, for delayed bag delivery.
What it does
Every quarter: courier services within 20 km of the airport, the best-rated first, with phone numbers, in a sheet for the baggage services team that delivers delayed bags.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Dublin, find courier services and instant courier services in the area, sort them by rating and keep the top 15, then add row in Google Sheets and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Delayed bags are a big source of complaints. Good couriers get them to passengers fast.
Who it is for
Airports, airlines & aviation. Airports, airlines, flight schools, maintenance and aviation services planning routes, partners and passengers’ journeys. Every use case for airports & aviation
Best use cases
- An airline’s baggage services
- A ground handler
- A baggage delivery company
What each run gives you
- A Google Sheet
The time it saves
Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 30 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 1 hours a month (an estimate). It is easy: 6 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- Around the airportWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- CouriersxMap data · Nearby placesPlaces around a point from xMap’s own places database (300M+ places, refreshed every month): pick the types of place (more than 5,000, such as Restaurant, Cafe, Pharmacy, Hospital or Gas station, or a whole group of them) and how far to look.
- Best 15 firstLogic · Sort and limitPuts the items in order, and can keep only the first ones: the 10 best rated, the 20 nearest, the highest fit scores.
- Update the bag delivery sheetApp · Google SheetsCreate, edit, and collaborate on spreadsheets online
- Email me the resultsAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.
Use it now
Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.
How to set it up
- The xMap Flows browser extension: what is around this business: On a company’s website or a place on a map, one click shows its market and the AI employees to hire for it.
- Build your first flow in ten minutes: From a blank page to a flow that emails you a ranked list every morning.
- What xMap remembers about your company: Your city, industry and what you sell, filled in for you and always yours to change.
- Ask the map a question: How many of a kind of place, how many people for each, and where the gaps are, answered on the spot.
- Location intelligence: Using where things are, and what is around them, to make business decisions.
- POI data (points of interest): Records of places such as shops, clinics and offices, with their category, position and details.
- Catchment area: The area a store or service draws its customers from.
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