Paper Title
The Impact of Service Quality, Satisfaction, and Behaviour of Passengers for Three Low-Cost Carriers Which Offers The Operating Services in Thailand
Abstract
The low-cost airlines or the budget airlines is the operation model on simplified routes with point-to-point transit
services, it adopts all strategies business such as choice of the secondary airport, the ways of selling tickets, fast turn-around
times, usually it will mainly focus on the short-haul flight routes between 400-600 nautical miles, even they without catering
and entertainment services on flight. Such as the strategy will cut down the price to a lower-level and they can have saved
will any benefit for the passengers. Low-cost carriers had changed the traditional idea of air travel. This paper presents the
impact of service quality, satisfaction, and behavior of passengers for three low-cost carriers which offers the operating
services in Thailand. The survey questionnaire was designed and administered to 110 respondents were collected by the
passengers who ever used that services. The survey questionnaire was designed and administered to 110 passengers who had
travelled of those three low-cost airlines are operating in Thailand which surveyed proceeding 1 month with the four
hypotheses as service quality and passenger’s satisfaction, satisfaction and word of mouth, satisfaction and repurchase
intention, and satisfaction and feedback by using the performance component of the service quality scale is SERVPERF as
an instrument. As the sampling found that the dimension’s importance of service quality tested as flight schedules, flight
attendants, tangibles, and ground staff; those things can be able to explaining the passenger satisfaction. Mostly influenced to
passengers are flight schedule, it will be positive in word of mouth communication and get repurchase again for the next
time. The passenger did not prefer to flight changing which they will be complaint the services. The sampling cannot define
the causality impacts of service quality, satisfaction, and behavior. Moreover, the satisfaction of airline industry is based on
service quality. In additional, the research should have several satisfy factor. The study has not definitively established
causality among the impact of service quality, satisfaction, and behavior intentions. Moreover, the satisfaction is based only
on service quality. Further future research should have examined the causality and other possibility for the satisfaction
factors. The managers of low-costs airline who did not traditionally placed a high priority on any quality that should be
aware of the importance of service quality and passenger’s satisfaction for determining the behavioral intentions of
passengers by Low Cost Carriers.
Keywords - Service quality, Customer satisfaction, Behaviour, Low-cost Carriers