scholarly journals PENGARUH KUALITAS PELAYANAN DAN KEWAJARAN TARIF TERHADAP NILAI KONSUMEN SERTA RETENSI PELANGGAN UNTUK PENERBANGAN DOMESTIK NIAGA FULL SERVICES DI INDONESIA

KINERJA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Yasintha Soelasih

Competition in the airline industry is very high. This can be seen that there are so many enterprises in this industry. There is a change in the legacy carriers to low cost carriers. Companies that still maintain the legacy carriers will have an impact on higher rates charged to passengers compared to the low cost carriers. Therefore the companies that use the legacy carriers should be able to provide better services than the companies that use low cost carriers. The companies should pay attention to service quality and fairness of tariffs, so that consumers perceived value to these companies are much more higher than to the company that using low cost carriers. As a result, customer retention occurs.

Author(s):  
Mahmut Bakır ◽  
Sahap Akan ◽  
Ozlem Atalik

Since the liberalization of the airline industry, the low-cost business model has been developed worldwide and a new business model of long-haul low-cost carriers (LHLCCs) has evolved. This chapter aims to investigate the LHLCC business model from a customer-oriented perspective in terms of service quality and perceived value. For this purpose, the authors investigated the effect of service quality on perceived value for money for LHLCCs. In this chapter, user-generated content was adopted to collect data, and 824 user-generated airline reviews were collected from TripAdvisor.com, the largest tourism-related repository. In order to investigate the relationship, a predictive correlational design was structured and a logistic regression analysis was applied. To contribute to the regression analysis, a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis was performed to measure the classification success. As a result, the logit model describes well the relationship between variables for LHLCCs.


2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-20
Author(s):  
Ronald Sukwadi ◽  
Angela Susanto ◽  
Yun-Chia Liang

Nowadays, the market is getting competitive in all aspects of the survival of the company. Companies, especially in the service industry, realize that in order to win the market, they need to explore new ways of delighting customers. The airline industry has played a vital role in Indonesia's modern development and competitiveness. Fierce competition and shrinking profits have impelled the airlines to stress upon improving the quality of the services being provided to the passengers. Passengers have become very specific about their service needs and often tend to shift to others that pro-vide better services. Service quality has emerged as a critical consideration for airlines in the competitive global mar-ket, coinciding with Low-Cost Carriers' rapid proliferation (LCCs), bringing a paradigm shift in airline business strat-egy. Twenty-five service quality attributes identified through extensive literature review and results obtained through five modified AIRQUAL dimensions are fruitful for airline managers to address service quality issues. This paper aims to evaluate LCCs’ service quality in Indonesia using the Extenics innovation theory. The Extenics innovation theory is a kind of method with the combination of formalization, quantification, and logicalization. It is effectively applied to put forward creative ideas of new services of airlines. The concepts and principles of service attributes classification based on Extenics are also discussed. To consider interdependence and to calculate the relative importance of each criterion, the AHP method is applied. The study demonstrates and signifies that the Extenics theory and AHP method are promising and pragmatic evaluation model for customer-oriented airline strategic planning. This study has a number of practical implications for LCC airlines, its policy makers and managers. Findings of this study suggest that LCC airlines should focus on appropriate strategies for improving their customers’ satisfaction. Airlines should con-cern on service failures such as delays by providing extra customer care to supplement required material compensation and provide valuable objective feedback and information. A theoretical implication of this study is that Extenics inno-vation theory can classify and prioritize the service attributes of airlines. Further, the scope of future research works has been discussed at the end to conclude the paper.


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hsiu-Fen Lin

PurposeBy extending the existing service quality dimensions and reflecting the low-cost carriers (LCCs) context, the purpose ot this study aims to develop the research model to examine whether passenger satisfaction mediates the relationship between service quality and behavioral intentions of LCCs across low- and high-experience passengers.Design/methodology/approachData collected from 320 passengers (180 for low-experience passengers and 140 for high-experience passengers) to test the research model. The partial least square structural equation modeling approach was used to perform the path modeling and multi-group analysis.FindingsThe results confirm that passenger satisfaction mediates the relationship between four service quality constructs (tangible features, service reliability, quality of personnel and online ticketing service) and behavioral intentions (repurchase and recommendation intentions) for both low- and high-experience passengers. However, convenient flight schedule has a significant influence on passenger satisfaction only for low-experience passengers.Practical implicationsThe results of multi-group analysis indicated that passenger satisfaction exerts stronger effect on recommendation intentions for low-experience passengers. LCCs managers' priority should be placed on providing satisfying service experiences to less experienced passengers. Improved passenger satisfaction through superior service quality motivates low-experience passengers to recommend LCCs, thus increasing the positive word-of-mouth promotion.Originality/valueTheoretically, this study is first considering both low- and high-experience LCCs passenger perceptions to examine how passenger satisfaction mediates the relationship between service quality and post-purchase intentions. From the managerial perspective, the findings can provide useful management insights into developing multi-faceted strategies that allow LCCs firms to restore passenger confidence and retain their repurchase intentions.


Author(s):  
Farrah Zeba ◽  
Musarrat Shaheen ◽  
Raveesh Krishnankutty

In the hyper-competitive Indian airline industry, the low-cost carriers as well as full-service airlines are in dire need of innovative marketing strategies to engage their customers. To understand the dynamics behind the process of customer engagement, the purpose of this paper is to gain insights into the lived experience of consumers about their online air-ticket bookings experiences. In total, 60 frequent air travellers were approached to participate in the study and the self-completion diary method was incorporated to record their ticket booking experiences. The responses recorded in the diaries were analyzed on the basis of their content from which eight themes were derived. The findings bring forth the importance of hedonic experiential values along with utilitarian experiential values toward the engagement of customers during the online air-ticket booking process. The current study is one of the pioneers in conceptualization of customer engagement as a third-order construct by uncovering the sub-dimensions of the second order factors—utilitarian and hedonic experiential values.


Significance Despite low fuel costs and the global airline industry running profitable operations, Kenya Airways has recorded multiple years of losses, leading the company to consider a recovery strategy that includes selling aircraft and shedding jobs. Impacts East African air carriers could benefit from industry rationalisation, but domestic political concerns could obstruct regional reforms. Low-cost carriers have emerged in Africa but struggle to make headway against publicly owned airlines. Once Kenya Airways exits fuel-hedging commitments, lower prices should improve profit margins. Without airline liberalisation and local carrier rationalisation, foreign airlines will benefit most from growing African air travel. Government protectionism, high taxes and regulation will restrict competition, especially from low-cost carriers.


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