Positioning of selected Middle Eastern airlines in the South African business and leisure travel environment

Journal of Air Transport Management

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 75-81

  Surovitskikh, Svetlana ^a   Lubbe, Berendien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Airline positioning; Business travel; Leisure travel; Service quality; South Africa

Indexed keywords

AIRLINE INDUSTRY; BUSINESS SERVICE; FACTOR ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; TRAVEL DEMAND;

ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 41749117260     PISSN: 09696997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2007.12.001     Document Type: Article

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