DOAJ Open Access 2021

Do passengers perceive flying first class as a luxury experience?

Eileen Lee Carl A Boger Andy Heyes

Abstrak

The definition of a single luxury experience has remained elusive to the airline industry, experts, scholars, and even luxury consumers. The duality of luxury suggests that experiences must provide a sense of prestige and hedonic well-being to be perceived as luxurious by consumers. This study proposed that consumers’ feeling of prestige influences their hedonic well-being, as suggested by self-determination theory. Passengers derive a sense of prestige from their sensory and behavioural experiences. Meanwhile, they derive hedonic well-being from their sense of prestige and their sensory and intellectual experiences. Thus, the first-class cabin experience was confirmed as luxurious. The airline industry should enhance sensory, intellectual, and behavioural experiences in their first-class cabins to increase the luxuriousness of the first-class experience.

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Eileen Lee

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Carl A Boger

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Andy Heyes

Format Sitasi

Lee, E., Boger, C.A., Heyes, A. (2021). Do passengers perceive flying first class as a luxury experience?. https://doi.org/10.1080/22243534.2020.1867375

Akses Cepat

Informasi Jurnal
Tahun Terbit
2021
Sumber Database
DOAJ
DOI
10.1080/22243534.2020.1867375
Akses
Open Access ✓