Do Citizens of a City that Owns a Local Public Airport Have Attachment to the Airport and Use it?

This research investigates whether passengers living in a city with local public airport have an attachment to that and tend use it. Focusing on the greater Kansai area its three airports Kobe, which owns one of them, Kobe Airport, as example, empirical analysis was conducted using nested logit model micro data. The result basic shows prefer Airport when compared other cities. An additional based questionnaire survey revealed certain percentage respondents choose because they love it, meaning non-economic factor influences passengers’ decisions. results this suggest enhancing might be possible idea for policy makers cities increase their passengers.