The Airport Development due to the Demand of Passengers (Case: Mutiara Palu, Indonesia)

Abstract

The influence of service quality has limited attention to the airport study. The services are according to the demand that directly influences the development of the airport. This study investigates the development of the airport. The increasing of passengers used aircraft for the mode choice of transportation made the polemic. The quality of service with the growing demand of passengers could satisfaction the passenger to use the airport facilities and made a flight. The rising trend of passengers has to cover the quality of service performance with the expansion of the airport. The demand analysis is conducted to predict and optimize the services of the airport facilities According to the population and daily flight information. Demand shows the forecast of passengers use the semi-average method, least square method, and the quadratic trend method. The result confirms that the trend of passengers is attracted to choose a cheap flight as a priority than the safety factor. The population affected by the demand for a flight. Otherwise, the growth of domestic products is related to increasing flight demand. Finally, the result shows the factors that affected the demand of passengers to travel with aircraft influenced the expansion in developing the airport facilities.