The purpose of this study is to find out the relationship between the characteristics of airline SNS contents, customer satisfaction. Also this study analyze that the personal characteristics have moderating effects in relation to customer satisfactio...
The purpose of this study is to find out the relationship between the characteristics of airline SNS contents, customer satisfaction. Also this study analyze that the personal characteristics have moderating effects in relation to customer satisfaction. The purpose of this study is to provide a suggestion to airline that SNS can be used as a effective marketing tool.
In order to proceed with the research, prior literature review and empirical study were conducted. Based on the literature review, the concepts of SNS, SNS content characteristics, customer satisfaction, and personal characteristics are summarized. According to this, a research model and hypotheses were established and verification of the hypotheses were conducted through empirical analysis.
The survey used in this study was conducted on airline users who have experience using SNS. Total of 225 copies were used as valid samples. The collected data was analyzed by program such as SPSS 22.0 and AMOS 18.0.
To identify demographic characteristics, frequency analysis was performed. Both exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis were performed to verify the more accurate validity and reliability of measurement tools. Also, reliability analysis, correlation analysis and hypothesis verification were performed.
The results for the hypothesis are as follows.
First, as a result of analyzing the relationship between airline SNS content characteristics and customer satisfaction, it was found that three components of airline SNS content characteristics had a positive effect on customer satisfaction.
Second, as a result of study, propensity of diversity pursuit, innovation propensity, and information seeking propensity had a moderating effect on the relationship between component of airline SNS content characteristics such as promotion, information and customer satisfaction. That three personal characteristics didn’t have moderating effect on the relationship between communication and customer satisfaction.
Self-reality had a moderating effect on the relationship between communication and customer satisfaction only. In addition, self-reality didn’t have moderating effect on the relationship between promotion, information and customer satisfaction.
Based on this study, the implications are as follows.
First, the promotion, information, and communication were analyzed to have a positive effect on customer satisfaction. Therefore, airlines marketing staffs should to try making diversified, interesting contents. Also airlines need to provide promotion for destination, tickets actively and provide airline-related information quickly and easily for customer. Customer satisfaction is tied to corporate profit, so airlines should to try improving promotion, information and communication contents’ quality.
Second, as a result of study, propensity of diversity pursuit, innovation propensity, and information seeking propensity had a moderating effect on the relationship between component of airline SNS content characteristics such as promotion, information and customer satisfaction. Therefore, airlines should to make promotion content such as information on special offers, events, new service and information content such as various information related to airlines, service or campaign more interesting for them.
Also, customers who have self-reality, experience satisfaction on communication content rather than promotion and information content. Therefore airlines need to make more opportunities for communication such as using 'like', 'comment', 'share' functions in SNS or give and receive opinions through comments in real time.