Evaluating the Competitiveness for Major International Airports in Northeast Asia

The rapid growth of air passenger demand and competition among major international airports in Asia has raised governments’ attention to re-examine their dual-airport or multiple-airport policy. The purpose of this study is to investigate the current development and determine the factors influencing the competitive strength of routes between the international hub airports in Northeast Asia and other airports at local cities based on passenger demand, airlines, and airport attributes. A demand competitive indicator is proposed to present the competitiveness and connectivity of selected routes connecting to Narita and Incheon International Airports. In order to clarify the relationship between the demand competitive indicator and components, we used a multivariate regression approach. The results of the analysis show that air passengers in local cities could more convenient connections using Incheon as the hub airport for reaching destination overseas. While Korean airline companies have applied and operated for the routes between Incheon Airport and local airports in Japan, which attracts air passengers to use Incheon as hub airport for their overseas itineraries, Narita offered limited domestic flight service but focuses its operation connecting to most major airports in Japan with higher passenger demand.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1007/s12205-018-0254-9
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © Korean Society of Civil Engineers and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2019. The contents of this paper reflect the views of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official views or policies of the Transportation Research Board or the National Academy of Sciences.
• Authors:
  • Eie, Wei-Yin
  • Hong, Jungyeol
  • Park, Dongjoo
• Publication Date: 2019-2

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 844-849
• Serial:
  • KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering
  • Volume: 23
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Korean Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 1226-7988
  • EISSN: 1976-3808
  • Serial URL: http://link.springer.com/journal/12205

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air routes; Competition; Connectivity; Demand; Hubs; International airports
• Identifier Terms: Incheon International Airport; Narita International Airport
• Geographic Terms: Incheon (Korea); Narita (Japan)
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Economics; Planning and Forecasting; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01695748
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 21 2019 9:55AM