Even the ferries are now adrift and losing passengers to cut-price airlines.
Long-distance trains have been losing passengers to planes throughout the world, including Europe.
The fear of losing passengers appears to be a greater motivator than the fear of potential regulation.
Mr. Selvaggio said Delta originally envisioned Song as a defensive measure to keep from losing passengers to others.
The difficult part of the job, Mr. Wurtzburger says, is losing passengers he has become close to.
With European economies flat-lining in the aftermath of the financial crisis, small airports have struggled to grow, and many are still losing passengers.
The airport is still small, and indeed losing passengers, with only 15 scheduled departures a day, and not one by any of Europe's traffic-multiplying cut-price airlines.
Taking into consideration airlines' seeking the prevention of losing passengers' goodwill in situations where the level of service quality (SQ) performed is not as high as the promoted one, this research is focused particularly on an influence of delayed connecting (or in-bound) high-fare passengers on making decisions on onward delays.
This research examines to which extent the disruptive/irregular events such as missed and delayed connections may affect the airlines' high valuable passengers' satisfaction, if taking into consideration airlines' seeking the prevention of losing passengers' goodwill especially in the situation where the level of service quality (SQ) performed is not as high as the promoted one.
Hereby, the passenger recovery strategy mostly depends on the airline's network and its business plan, while losing passengers' goodwill with a consequence of their switching to another airline can also be dependent on the current situation on the particular market (i.e. if there is one or more competitor(s) operating the same route/city-pair).
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