The Key Factors of Low Cost Carriers for Airport Selection

• Main Authors: Lin, Ching-Lun, 林靖侖
• Other Authors: Chiou, Yu-Chiun
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/54385810325854204423

碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 管理學院運輸物流學程 === 101 === Passed in 1978, the U.S. Airline Deregulation Act intended to remove the constraints on air fares, market access for air routes, and market entry for new airlines; therefore, airlines were able to maximize economic benefits bordered by their resource. Divided over air transport market, there were two major branches of airlines operations: the first one was the legacy or full service carriers heavily relied upon hub and spoke network. The second one was the low cost carriers depending on their point to point services. Years later, the market shares for these full service carriers are shrinking, while low cost carriers enjoy a long sustained growth. Beside United States, the trends of low cost carriers were spread to other parts of world as well. There were successful stories for low cost carriers emerged in Europe and Southeast Asia. Constrained by bilateral agreements and Taoyuan international airport capacity, the market shares for these low cost carriers operated in Taiwan is lower than those of Asian average. However, Asian countries, such as Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, gradually adopt open sky policy. We are anticipated that Taiwan will follow the suit. Compared with full service carriers operations, low cost carriers take more flexible and volatile approaches toward air services provided. This research emphases the finding of key factors of low cost carriers for airport selection. Adopted from renowned literatures and relevant information, this research lists down 20 key factors classified into 5 categories. Taking the opinions form scholars and aviation experts, this research obtains the criteria weights and airport ranking processed by Analytic Hierarchy Analysis (AHP) and Hierarchy Scoring Method (HSM) procedures. Airport authorities could implement facility improvement strategies and operational competiveness advantage strategies by the use of research results.