Demand Leakage from a Local Small Airport to a Regional Main Airport
Volume 5, Issue 1 Yu Morimoto
Published online: 19 February 2019
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Abstract
This paper investigates traffic demand leakage from local small airports to regional main airports. To capture the factors that affect the airport choices of passengers, conditional logit analysis was implemented utilizing Japanese micro data. The target of the statistical analysis is the traffic demand of Kitakyushu city that has the Kitakyushu Airport (KKJ), a local one. The choice set of passengers consists of KKJ and the Fukuoka Airport (FUK), which is regional. The main results are as follows: First, 79.3% of passengers utilize KKJ as long as it is directly connected to the destination airport. However, 0.9% only of passengers choose KKJ if it is not. This implies the importance of direct flight services. The second result is ground access time and scheduling costs have negative effects on airport choice, indicating that improving ground access and attracting flight frequency are possible policies that could be utilized to promote the local airport. Utilizing the results of the data analysis, the effects of potential policies was simulated. A one-minute decrease in the access time to KKJ raises the probability that KKJ will be chosen by 1.1% and a one-flight increase on the Tokyo-KKJ route raises the probability by 0.14%.
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Morimoto, Y. (2019). Demand leakage from a local small airport to a regional main airport. International Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, 5(1), 36-. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.20469/ijhss.5.10005-1
