The Asymmetric Effects of Service Quality on
Passengers' Choice of Carriers for International
Air Travel

 

Rong-Chang Jou
Soi-Hoi Lam
Chung-Wei Kuo
Chih-Ching Chen

The asymmetric effects of service quality on international travelers' airline choice behavior were investigated in this paper. The linear structural equation modeling system was first applied to quantify passengers' perceptions of service quality provided by airlines, which were then used as the input variables of the asymmetric response model developed to capture international travelers' airline decision. Their asymmetric responses to various service quality of airlines were assumed to be either gains or losses with respect to their reference points. The results showed that the asymmetric response model performs better than the traditional logit models that capture only symmetrical effects.

  Return to Journal Listing   Return to HomePage