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A Study on Improvement of the Air Carrier Pilot's Qualification Check in Korea (조종사 운항자격 심사제도 개선방안에 관한 연구)

  • Hwang, Sasik;Choi, Sungho
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.32-43
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    • 2014
  • Worldwide, air transport demand of this century is expanding rapidly, and each countries' demand is also increasing. Thus a number of low-cost carriers emerged in existing air transportation business sector and airman qualification check work regarding aviation safety management is increasing too. As the remedy for the result of aviation safety audit by ICAO and FAA in 2001 that governmental activity for aviation safety had been performed by a small number of aviation safety inspectors, airman qualification inspection system implemented by airlines was improved and the government has established the system that authorized airman qualification inspectors check airmen qualification with airlines according to the international trend. This study suggests the need of improvement of airman qualification inspection system that existing inspection system as the means of safety management can be transferred to Operations Safety Inspection(OSI) activity which is compliant with international standards.

Determinants of selection of full-service airlines and low-cost airlines in Korea (항공사 선택속성의 차이에 관한 연구: FSC와 LCC를 중심으로)

  • Ha, sung-duk;Choi, jin-ho;Choi, yu-jene
    • Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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    • 2011.05a
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    • pp.279-280
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    • 2011
  • 전 세계적으로 저비용항공사의 항공운송시장 참여로 승객들의 항공사 선택이 다양화 되었으며, 우리나라도 2011년 현재 5개의 저비용항공사가 시장에 참여하여 기존 국적항공사와 경쟁을 하고 있다. 본 연구는 우리나라 항공사 승객이 항공사 선택 시 중요하게 생각하는 속성을 파악하고, 저비용항공사 승객과 기존 국적항공사 승객이 항공사 선택 시 중요시 하는 속성의 중요도와 만족도 차이를 분석하는데 목적이 있다. 저비용항공사와 기존 국적항공사 승객을 대상으로 설문을 실시하여 항공사 선택 속성을 파악하고, 차이분석, 중요도-만족도 분석, t-test를 활용하여 항공사 선택 속성의 차이를 분석하고 국적항공사와 저비용항공사의 항공사 선택속성 중요도와 만족도 차이를 분석하고자 한다.

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Decomposing Relationship between Safety Climate, Safety Perception, and Safety Behavior in Airline Industry

  • Gyulee, Kim
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.444-452
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    • 2022
  • This research aims to investigate the relationship between safety climate and safety perception and safety behavior. Safety perception of the relationship is considered to have a mediating effect. Previous literature has tended to regard safety perception as an independent variable at the same level as the safety climate, which can be said to depend on behavioralism to approach the causal relationship to an one-way perspective. The survey was administrated through full- service carries in Korea such as Korean Air and Asiana Airlines, and low-cost carriers such as JeJu air, Jin air, and Air Pusan. It can identify a mediator of safety perception between safety climate and safety behavior. There are significant indirect effects of each value, which means mediators values of safety perception of safety climate variables and safety behavior. The study highlights that airlines should focus on the importance of their psychological aspects to strengthen the safety behavior of flight attendants and the value of organizational efforts to mature safety perceptions, suggesting some implications of theoretical and practical aspects.

A Study on Minimum Cabin Crew Requirements for Korean Low Cost Air Carriers

  • Yoo, Kyung-In;Kim, Mun-Kyung
    • The Korean Journal of Air & Space Law and Policy
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    • v.33 no.2
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    • pp.291-314
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    • 2018
  • In recent 3 years, Korea's low-cost airlines have expanded their areas of passenger transportation not only to domestic market but also to Japan, China, Southeast Asia and US territory as a total of 6 companies (8 airlines including small air operation business carriers). Currently, three more airlines have filed for air transportation business certification as future low-cost carriers, and this expansion is expected to continue. To cope with the aggressive airline operations of domestic and foreign low-cost carriers and to enhance their competitiveness, each low-cost airline is taking a number of strategies for promoting cabin service. Therefore, the workload of the cabin crew is increased in proportion to the expansion, and the fatigue directly connected with the safety task performance is increased. It is stipulated in the Enforcement Regulations of the Korea Aviation Safety Act that at minimum, one cabin crew is required per 50 passenger seating capacity, and all low cost carriers are boarding only the minimum cabin crew. Sometimes it is impossible for them to sit in a floor level emergency exit for evacuation, which is the main task of the cabin crew, and this can cause confusion among evacuating passengers in the event of an emergency. In addition, if one of the minimum cabin crew becomes incapacitated due to an injury or the like, it will become a serious impediment in performing emergency evacuation duties. Even in the normal situation, since it will be violating the Act prescription on the minimum cabin crew complement, passengers will have to move to another available airline flights, encountering extreme inconvenience. Annex 6 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation specifies international standards for the determination of the minimum number of cabin crew shall be based only on the number of passenger seats or passengers on board for safe and expeditious emergency evacuation. Thereby in order to enhance the safety of the passengers and the crew on board, it is necessary to consider the cabin crew's fatigue that may occur in the various job characteristics (service, safety, security, first aid)and floor level emergency exit seating in calculating the minimum number of cabin crew. And it is also deemed necessary for the government's regulatory body to enhance the cabin safety for passengers and crew when determining the number of minimum cabin crew by reflecting the cabin crew's workload leading to their fatigue and unavailability to be seated in a floor level emergency exit on low cost carriers.

A Case Study of Oversea's Low Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT) for Hub Network Competitiveness (허브경쟁력 강화를 위한 해외 저가항공사 터미널(LCCT) 활용 사례연구)

  • Hwang, Sung-Youn;Kim, Jong-Hyun;Park, Sung-Sik;Kim, Kee-Woong
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.15-24
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    • 2014
  • Low Cost Carrier(LCC)s in Asia Pacific market are expected to record high growth due to the expansion of Open Sky Policy among Korea, Japan, China and South East Asia. As everybody is aware of, LCC is not only saving flight cost but also creates differentiating business model by reducing unnecessary services such as F&B and in-flight duty free sales services. Booming LCCs in Asian market will cause not only Incheon airport but also other local airports in Korea to compete heavily to attract LCCs. For example, Air Asia Group with more than 200 fleet has expanded its alliance network throughout Asia. Therefore this paper has researched a new business model operating a LCC terminal for the hub airport competitiveness. According to analysis result of case study, it was found out, considering increasing airline demand next decade, Incheon airport and other domestic airports in Korea had better change an existing terminal into a LCC Terminal(LCCT) to differentiate airport services and expand its hub network. That is because of economic feasibility, first of all, of securing hub and spoke networking capabilities with airlines and finally of developing commercial facilities customizing LCC passengers' demand.

The Influence of Customer Satisfaction on Customer Loyalty and the Moderating Effect of Gender (항공서비스에 대한 고객만족이 거래지속의도에 미치는 영향에 있어서 성별의 역할)

  • Kim, Moon-Seop
    • Journal of Distribution Science
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    • v.14 no.10
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    • pp.73-79
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    • 2016
  • Purpose - Customer satisfaction has been considered important as a way to retain current customers. Specifically, the retention of current customers through customer satisfaction has been considered important in an industry where competition between companies is fierce. Major Korean airlines have confronted fierce competition with the growth of low cost carriers (LCCs). In order to survive, these airlines need to retain their customers. This research aims to investigate the relationships between customer satisfaction and the customer intention to remain loyal. Moreover, this study examines how the influence of customer satisfaction on customer loyalty is moderated by gender. Research design, data, and methodology - A regression model is developed in which customer satisfaction, gender, and an interaction of satisfaction and gender are predictors and the customer's intention to remain loyal is a dependent variable. To analyze this research model, data were collected from 402 university students taking a marketing class in universities in Seoul, Chung-Cheong province, and Kangwon province. After eliminating data from students who had never flown and data with missing values, a final sample of 201 was analyzed. The hypotheses were tested using SPSS 21.0. Internal reliability was supported by the results of Cronbach's α. Multiple regression was performed. Results - Empirical results showed that customer satisfaction toward the airline's service had a positive influence on the customer intention to remain loyal to the airlines. Moreover, this influence was moderated by gender. More specifically, a male customer's intention to remain loyal was more determined by his satisfaction toward airline service than a female customer's. Conclusions - This research contributes to the aviation service marketing literature by showing how customer satisfaction influences customer intention to remain loyal and how this influence is moderated by gender. More specifically, male customer loyalty is more determined by airline service satisfaction than female customers. These results have manager implications for major Korean airlines in terms of customer satisfaction and gender as ways to enhance customer retention.

The Relationships of Website Quality, e-Satisfaction, e-Trust, and e-Loyalty in Low-Cost Carriers (저비용 항공사의 웹사이트 품질, e-만족, e-신뢰, e-충성도 간의 구조적 관계 연구)

  • In, Ok Nam;Kim, Seung Lee
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.18 no.10
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    • pp.207-216
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    • 2013
  • The A low-cost carriers(LCC)' website represents their public face to the world. Futhermore, distribution through their own websites is generally regarded as the being most cost effective for airlines The Internet website has become an effective marketing vehicle for low-cost carriers(LCC). The objective of this study was to examine theoretical relationship of website quality, e-satisfaction, e-trust, and e-loyalty to the low-cost carriers' website. The study sample included respondents who had visited any LCC websites in the last 12 months. Data were collected by conducting a web-based survey to maintain respondents' anonymity and overcome time and place constraints. From the 334 usable data obtained, hypotheses are tested using structural equation modeling. The results indicate that website quality, e-satisfaction, and e-trust are antecedents of e-loyalty in loyalty relationships between passengers and low-cost carriers' websites. Website quality positively influences e-satisfaction, e-trust while e-satisfaction. However, contrary to our expectation, e-satisfaction has a negative effect on e-trust. Managerial implications are provided following presentation of the findings.

Forecasting and Analysis of Air Meteorological Service Charge using ARIMA-Intervention Time Series Model (ARIMA-개입모델을 이용한 항공기상정보 사용료 징수액 추정 및 적정성 연구)

  • Kim, Kwang-Ok;Park, Sung-Sik
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.9-22
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    • 2018
  • Korea meteorological administration(KMA) has started to levy air meteorological service charge on both national and foreign carriers since 2005. The charge has grown on 2010 and 2014 twice. However, KMA has still kept asking airlines to agree with another increase in the charge due to the low cost of goods recovery ratio of 7%. The air meteorological charge has changed from 2,210 KRW at the beginning to 11,400 KRW as of June 2018. According to ARIMA intervention time series analysis, it was proven national carriers would make a payment of 831 million KRW 2018 and 1,024 million KRW 2019, showing 186.2% and 123.2% increase compared to last year respectively. The total amount of charge for both national LCC and foreign airlines was aggregated up to 1,952 million KRW 2019, 227% bigger than the charge paid at 2017. Considering the 50% increase of consumer price index last decade, the increased charge would impair the global competitiveness of national carriers. It could be suggested that current air meteorological charge scheme be improved to apply overseas trend and for national carriers to have a competitive advantage in global aviation market.

Management Strategies and Future Prospects of Global Airline Industry: Challenges from Middle Eastern Airlines and Countermeasures of Global Airlines and Future Prospects of Low Cost Carriers(LCCs) (글로벌 항공사 경영전략 트렌드: 중동의 도전과 글로벌 항공사들의 대응전략 및 저가항공사 (LCC) 경영전략 사례 연구)

  • Lee, Eung-Seok;Ham, Seok-Jeong
    • 한국항공운항학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2016.05a
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    • pp.249-254
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    • 2016
  • 저비용항공사들은 전세계적인 항공수요 증가 등으로 약진을 하기도 했지만, 2000년대 초반부터 세계 항공산업은 테러위험, 유가급등, 오일머니를 등에 업은 중동 항공사들의 급성장, 그리고 2008년부터 시작된 세계경제위기로 미국과 유럽, 일본 등 메이저 항공사들은 일단 최소한의 생존가능 임계규모를 갖추고자 뼈를 깎는 구조조정을 수반한 인수합병, 대외악재에 대한 대응능력 제고, 새로운 보조수익원 개발을 통해 위기를 헤쳐나갔다. 그러나 2013년 11월 단행된 중동 항공사들(Emirates, Qatar, Etihad)의 역사상 유례없는, 한화 약 170조원 규모의 항공기 구매계약에 미국과 유럽은 물론이고 아시아 메이저 항공업계까지 다시 한번 커다란 위기감에 휩싸이게 되었다. 이러한 상황하에서도 효율적 경영의 선구적 역할을 미국의 Southwest, 유럽의 LCC Ryan Air, 아시아의 LCC Air Asia 등 LCC산업은 극심한 경기침체를 겪으면서도 해당 산업의 규모는 지속적 성장을 거듭할 전망이다. 결론적으로, 이러한 상황에서, 비록 미국과 유럽 항공사들이 대규모 구조조정을 겪고 2012년 이후부터 점차 회복기미를 보이고 있긴 하지만, 중동 항공사들의 영향력에 대응하기 위해 향후에도 추가적인 구조조정은 물론 인수/합병 등 생존을 위한 메이저 항공사들 간의 빅딜이 이어질 전망이며, 일본처럼 내수시장이 넓지 않은 한국도 중국 등 성장잠재력이 높은 국가들과의 항공자유화 등을 적극적으로 추진하여 보다 넓은 시장을 확보하지 못한다면 머지않아 수익성에 큰 타격을 입을 수밖에 없다는 결론에 도달하였다.

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Correlation Analysis between Delay and Turnaround Time at Jeju International Airport (제주국제공항의 지연과 Turnaround Time 간의 상관관계 분석)

  • Lee, Choongsub;Kim, Dongsin;Kim, Hyewook;Baik, Hojong
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.1-11
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    • 2022
  • The capacity of Jeju International Airport has reached its limit due to a surge in air traffic demand such as passengers and cargo and the continuous expansion of Low Cost Carriers (LCC). Despite COVID-19 that has began in November 2019, Jeju International Airport still has continuous demand in terms of passenger and cargo transportation. As a result, it is undeniable that the delay rate also unexpectedly increased as the air traffic volume at Jeju International Airport continued to increase. In this study, the correlation between Turnaround Time and delay rates of national airlines is analyzed based on past flight data at Jeju International Airport, and the cumulative delay time trend for sampled airlines is compared with Turnaround Time. Through this study, it is expected to contribute to securing aircraft operation efficiency and on-time by analyzing delays related to Turnaround Time at Jeju International Airport.