August 2020 COVID Response

Customer Flexibility During COVID

When the pandemic grounded travel plans worldwide, customers needed options. Within days, we designed and built a fully automated tool allowing customers to convert expiring travel funds into Rapid Rewards points—giving them flexibility when they needed it most.

Speed was critical. We made strategic scope decisions: launching on desktop first with simple links from other platforms, and leveraging a newly developed “My Account” platform to validate our new design system. Engineering built while product managed stakeholder alignment in parallel.

Over 1 million travel funds converted to billions of Rapid Rewards points between August and December 2020.

Travel funds conversion tool
Travel funds to points converter
Conversion confirmation
Conversion confirmation experience