In fact, Incheon International Airport has been ranking one of the top among 1,700 airports all over the world. Moreover, it has provided vital role models in terms of service part as standing first in ‘Service Evaluation of International Airport’...
In fact, Incheon International Airport has been ranking one of the top among 1,700 airports all over the world. Moreover, it has provided vital role models in terms of service part as standing first in ‘Service Evaluation of International Airport’ from 2005 to 2011. Furthermore, this global hub claimed the 2nd position of international air cargo and the top 10 of international passengers.
Surprisingly, there were plenty of achievements not only an increase in quantity but also an improvement in quality. In detail, Incheon airport achieved annual revenue more than 10 billion dollars, 15 billion dollars of total sale and 60 million dollars of net revenue in 2010 even though European global economical crisis which could be effected to decrease flight demand. This amount of result was mainly from non-aviation revenue instead of aviation revenue. There was a sudden 3 million dollars drop of aviation revenue in 2009 as 44.51 million dollars compare to 2008 of 41.51 million dollars aviation revenue. However, non-aviation revenue surprisingly increased 14.4 million dollars in the same period. Also, the percentage of aviation revenue did not reach to 50% of total sale while the percentage of non-aviation revenue was over 50% and 65% in 2009. Unfortunately, this unbalance of revenue can have negative effects for net aviation revenue when Incheon international airport has competitions with other airlines of Japan and China.
The purpose of this study is investigation how aviation revenue be different depends on the number of flight operations, passengers and cargo.
The research scope is the number of flight operations, passengers, cargo as basic data including net revenue, aviation revenue and non-aviation revenue between 2005 and 2010. This thesis operates correlation, simple regression, multiple regression analysis for empirical analysis through SPSS 18.0.
To sum up, the number of flight operation, passengers, cargo has high correlation and similar trends with aviation revenue rather than non-aviation revenue. In simple regression, aviation revenue is similar to flight operation as p<0.05 and has effects to positive(+) when aviation revenue and non-aviation revenue are considered as the dependant variable. The number of passengers and cargo is similar to flight operation as p<0.01 and has effects to the positive(+). In other words, the hypothesis “the more the number of flight operation, passengers and cargo, the more aviation revenues” is accepted.
There is no relation between non-aviation revenue and the number of flight operation, passengers, cargo. Thus, the other hypothesis “the more the number of flight operation, passengers and cargo, the more non-aviation revenues” is dismissed.
Then, 3 factors as independent variable has 99.9% of interpretation with aviation revenue and statistically significant through multiple regression analysis. According to the study, the number of flight operation and cargo has positive effect(+), but passengers has negative effect(-) to aviation revenue. The number of passengers is not significant with non-aviation revenue due to p>0.1 even if it has 91.9% explanation.
The number of flight operation, passengers, cargo has positive influence to aviation revenue of total net revenue from Incheon international airport. Contrastingly, there is no positive impact to non-aviation revenue at the same period. Thus, imbalanced revenue between aviation revenue and non-aviation revenue is becoming a serious issue as the gap wider. To conclusion, they have to create new routes and to make an effort to increase the number of flight operation and demand for air travel to improve of aviation revenue. Last but not least, there are a few needs of in-depth research for restrict plans of non-aviation revenue and the way of balanced revenue making to solve the imbalanced revenue.