An investigation into traveler preferences and acceptance levels of airline ancillary revenues

O'Connell, John Frankie and Warnock-Smith, David (2013) An investigation into traveler preferences and acceptance levels of airline ancillary revenues. Journal of Air Transport Management, 33. pp. 12-21. ISSN 0969-6997

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Abstract

This study determines traveler preferences and acceptability levels for a range of airline ancillary products and services by employing an on-line passenger survey to examine booking preferences as well as attitudes toward a selection of air and non-air travel components sold by the airlines. The survey results are combined with expert opinions collated from a recent international conference, along with secondary data, to generate an acceptance ranking which can be used by a range of airlines to formulate their ancillary revenue strategies. It is found that airport car parking and checked baggage charges proved to be the most accepted commission based and unbundled products for airlines to sell respectively. Despite the recent focus and successes in ancillary revenues, however, it can also observed that none of the ancillary products and services examined in this study achieved a high take up rating suggesting that airlines can do much more to convince travelers of the benefit and value in airlines selling non-core products and services to them.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications
Schools:	Huddersfield Business School
Related URLs:	Author
Depositing User:	David Warnock-Smith
Date Deposited:	16 Jul 2013 13:19
Last Modified:	17 Oct 2013 14:11
URI:	http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/17957

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