Customer Value in Budget Airline Industry

1. Introduction
Nowadays, in the context of very severe competition among companies, a good product is no longer a strong enough source of companies’ competitive advantage, though it is still necessary to remain competitive of companies in the market. Many companies have focused on reengineering or flattening their organization to reduce cost and increase profit but the overall results did not meet their expectation of profit. Therefore, more and more companies are accomplishing strategies to provide more preeminent customer value which will help the companies consolidate their competitive advantage and achieve long-term profitability. Companies have responded to customers’ expectation by increasing the value offered to them through improving products quality, reducing prices and intensifying customer services (Bill Dodds, 2003).
In the transportation industry, there are more and more budget airlines and they are fiercely competing. Budget airlines dropped their prices to attract customers and price can be considered as a competitive advantage for budget airlines to normal airline. However, in fact, many budget airlines invest to low cost for competition rather than meet the needs of their customers. Consequently, the quality of services of budget airlines is very poor and does not meet customer’s expectations. For example, Jet star airline and Tiger airline are the budget airlines in Vietnam; they often cancel or delay their flights and often meet some problems with their airplane engine that make their customers unsatisfied and losing of trust. Therefore, in order to optimize customer loyalty and achieve long-term profitability, the budget airlines have to pay more attention to create and develop customer value.
Based on the above issue and the need for further research of this issue, thus, my research question of this problem is formulated as follows: “What factors affect customer value creating in budget airlines industry?”
The purpose of this assignment

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