Student Theses and Dissertations
Date of Award
Fall 12-15-2021
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Program of Study
Communication - Corporate Communication
Language
English
First Advisor
Minna Logemann
Second Advisor
Caryn Medved
Abstract
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has been impacted the whole world. One of the hardest-hit industries in the aviation industry. This research investigates how COVID-19 challenged this sector. It focuses especially on how American Airlines and Lufthansa Group got impacted and what they tried to do to recover from this crisis. This paper’s primary focus is on how those two airlines changed their communication strategy and their marketing to regain customer trust and their reputation. It looks at different researchers and their theories to overcome such a crisis like this and discusses different airlines and what they did when they were in a crisis. The results show, that both airlines did a great job adapting to the new situation and rethinking and restructuring and coming out with new and different marketing and communication strategies. Those strategies aligned with the theories of the researchers from the paper such as the SCCT theory from Timothy Coombs and the image restoration theory from William Benoit.
Recommended Citation
Sonntag, Theresa, "How Did Covid-19 Impact the Aviation Industry" (2021). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/bb_etds/122