Abstract:
The purpose of this research was to (1) study the context of the quality of service (2) study the service user satisfaction in the quality of service (3) study problems, obstacle of services of the Mae Fah Luang - Chiang Rai International Airport. Key informants used in this research were chosen in accordance with the purposes of the research (Purposeful Sampling). Service providers were chosen based on its the organizational structure. While, the interviewed service users must be the Airports users for at last 5 years. Five informants per group were initially planned to interview, however; data were saturated with total 12 informants. Semi - structured interview employed SERVQUAL concepts was used as data collection tool to fulfil research objectives.
The research found that the management of Mae Fan Luang - Chiang Rai International Airport has its duty to manage and provide facilities for passenger, airline and operators and has to comply with regulations of Airport of Thailand Public Company, Limited. The airport officers focuses on service quality because it is the value of their organization. The airport also emphasizes on Safety is the standard of service by heart and has a tall organizational structure. Basing on SERVQUAL theory, executives and users agreed on that airport was good in several dimensions especially on reliability, responsiveness, assurance and empathy. The service were operated efficiently under strict standards and regulations. Airports goal of providing service is Beyond expectations. It found that the tangibility dimension of airport needed more improvement  various facilities within the airport were insufficient to serve the high number of users. Users commented that is important to maintain service quality specifically on reliability, responsiveness and assurance in respectively. Although the policy of providing service was established to meet some users expectation at a certain level. Nevertheless, tangibility of airport is needed to be improved by providing more facilities and ancillary services such as 24-hour service by officers. The trouble shooter and complaint handing should be more efficient in order to increase the level of customers satisfaction.