Open AccessDo Citizens of a City that Owns a Local Public Airport Have Attachment to the Airport and Use it?
Author(s) -
Yu Morimoto,
Takeshi Koide,
Takeshi Koide,
Yuko Sugiura
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of air transport studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1791-6771
DOI - 10.38008/jats.v11i2.148
Subject(s) - international airport , business , empirical research , logistic regression , advertising , transport engineering , geography , marketing , engineering , computer science , mathematics , statistics , machine learning
This research investigates whether passengers living in a city with a local public airport have an attachment to that airport and tend to use it. Focusing on the greater Kansai area with its three airports and Kobe, which owns one of them, Kobe Airport, as an example, an empirical analysis was conducted using a nested logit model and micro data. The result of the basic model shows that passengers living in Kobe prefer the Kobe Airport when compared to passengers living in other cities. An additional analysis based on a questionnaire survey revealed that a certain percentage of respondents choose Kobe Airport because they love it, meaning that the non-economic factor of attachment influences passengers’ decisions. The results of this research suggest that enhancing attachment to an airport might be a possible idea for policy makers of airport cities to increase their passengers.