The nation's airline transportation market is now under limitless competition against world wide airline companies. Airline companies are now putting forth a lot of work in customer service which demands high cost and cost competition to accommodate c...
The nation's airline transportation market is now under limitless competition against world wide airline companies. Airline companies are now putting forth a lot of work in customer service which demands high cost and cost competition to accommodate customers. However, these severe competitions made the policy based on the lower cost useless since other competitors are rapidly accepting the same policy.
Therefore airline companies are changing their marketing strategies by establishing various methods of intensifying competition, such as developing customer oriented product, in-flight service and individual conveniences which can differentiate itself from competitors and improve image of its own company.
And also, what is keenly demanded to the nation's airlines to compete against enormous sized advanced airlines in the world under severe competition is that the airline have to develop customers' reaction through their satisfaction which can be airline's own asset and long term and competitive resources.
Newman and Werbel(1973) researched and published that customers' satisfaction induces their re-buying and the rate of re-buying of those who experience dissatisfaction is lower than that of those who experience satisfaction.
Customer reaction could be an important element to attain firm competition superiority over competitors which can be achieved through marketing efforts.
Those theses previously written about airline companies have been mostly on the field of airline service, customer satisfaction, attribute of airline selection, system of frequent users and customer loyalty, inquiry and evaluation on airline service and so on.
These researches lack somewhat the point which element exerts important influence on customers' reaction among various perceived values and factors of airline image shown to customers.
Therefore, this thesis is to know what kind of relations they have - the nation's airline users' perceived values, primary factors of image and customers' satisfaction and customers' reaction - from positive research for the nation's airlines to be able to attain competition superiority and to cope with the competition in the global airline market.
The purpose of this research is to examine what are the main factors that constitute the airline's perceived values and images and to look into a model which enables us to study systematically what influences those factors exert on and to study positively and analyze into the relations between the variables that exist in them.
Summing up the result analyzed in this research, I could present suggestions as follows.
Firstly, systematical methods should be worked out to provide higher quality of service which demands more financial and time investment in order to make customers satisfied due to the perceived values.
Secondly, airlines should show more interest not only in the contents and kinds of in-flight service but in the general image of the airlines formed to the customers outwardly.
Thirdly, considering the research that the level of customers' satisfaction influences on their re-buying and positive oral circulation, it is estimated that it is more effective for the airlines to keep good relation with existing customers than to create new customers to maximize management profit.