The pressure for full service airlines to retain business travelers has been increasing. One of the strategic tasks for airline
managers is to determine the drivers of business traveler satisfaction and loyalty so that they can then focus on developing
the right strategies. In this study, we apply a synthesized framework of ten airline attributes to identify their influence on
three loyalty variables overall satisfaction, repurchase intention and recommendation intention. Our empirical study was
set in the world’s second largest civil aviation market, and the growth engine of the global airline industry, China’s domestic
air passenger market (IATA, 2013). Our findings reveal five important attributes that drive business traveler loyalty toward
full-service airlines in China: airline reputation, in-flight staff service, FFP, aircraft, and punctuality, covering all the three
categories of operational, competitive and attractive factors.