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Title Preliminary Study on the Distribution of Flight Networks in Major Asian Airports by Connectivity
Dept Transportation Engineering, Maritime and Air Transport Division
Year 2020
Month 7
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Summary

       The evaluation data commonly used to discuss competitiveness of airport in the world include passengers, cargo traffic volume, as well as the departure and arrival times of the airport’s operating performance. Some of them are also use indicators of subjective service levels or passenger satisfaction to do the analysis. Although these indicator data are valuable in themselves as they can directly show the airport operation status and the usage frequency of airspace, or the attractiveness of the airport to passengers and airlines; however, they do not provide information about airline network diversity and the competitive position relationship of hub airports. 
       This study uses the Netscan Model to calculate the connectivity, and evaluates the relationship between airfare and passenger volume at the same time. The analysis results show that Taoyuan Airport currently has relative advantages in three transit markets of Vietnam, Manila and Jakarta compared with Hong Kong, Narita, and Incheon Airports, however, it is in a suboptimal situation compared with the transit markets of Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. In addition, the regression analysis shows that the relationship between connectivity and passenger volume is positively correlated, while the relationship between airfare and passenger volume is negatively correlated, meaning that the higher connectivity attracts more passengers to transit, and higher the airfare, the less attractive to passengers to transit. At present, two national airlines have adopted the strategy of increasing the connectivity as much as possible or lowering the airfare to attract passengers at the 6 major Southeast Asia passenger flight points transit to North America, and the attractiveness and competitiveness of their airports are significantly higher if both strategies are used at the same time. 
       In order to make Taoyuan Airport a transit hub in the Asia-Pacific region, the airport shall provide timely assistance in arranging and acquiring timelines of national airlines, so that the quality of airline connectivity can be more competitive, and also can attract more passengers to transit. 

Post date 2020-08-18
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