Expectations are high among some financial analysts, investors and industry experts that the low-cost airlines, which now hold only 7% of the intra-European air travelmarket as reckoned by the number of passengers they fly, and even less by revenue, can reach the penetration levels achieved by their U.S. counterparts.
Inside sales has been the high-growth area of sales and lead generation since the market crash of 2008 when companies scaled back travel and high cost positions in favor of a new generation of sales people, a high velocity business model, and leveraged affordable technology that companies rent instead of buy.