The service quality of airliners has been regarded as crucial to get the competitive advantages due to increasing competition in the airline industry. Parasuraman, Zeithaml and Berry(1988) identified the appearance of service providers as one of the i...
The service quality of airliners has been regarded as crucial to get the competitive advantages due to increasing competition in the airline industry. Parasuraman, Zeithaml and Berry(1988) identified the appearance of service providers as one of the important factors of tangible quality. This study tried to contribute to both academic and practical issues concerning the impact of flight attendant's appearance on customers' satisfaction with the appearance image of the flight attendants. Data was collected from a Korean airliners' customers. Factor analysis was conducted to identify the major factors of flight attendants' appearance and multiple regression analysis was employed to examine the impact of flight attendant's appearance on customers' satisfaction and repurchase intention. The results of the analyses show that several factors of flight attendants' appearance influence the customers' satisfaction with the appearance image of the flight attendants and repurchase intention.