üzerinde duygusal ve deneyimsel reaksiyonlar yaratma potansiyelleri yüksektir (Otto ve Ritchie 1996).Esasen turizm faaliyetleri esnasında yaşanan çok sayıda ve yakın sosyal etkileşimin müşteri-leri ya 'sosyal kolaylaştırma' (social facilitation) olarak adlandırılan olumlu deneyimlere (kuyrukta beklerken başkalarıyla sohbet etmenin bekleme toleransını arttırması, grup halindeki müş-terilerin yalnız kişilere kıyasla yeme-içme, alışve-riş merkezi gibi işletmelerde geçirdikleri ortalama sürenin ve yaptıkları aktivitelerin daha fazla
ABSTRACTWork processes and service offerings in tourism sector are performed by close relationships and interactions among the staff, customer and environment. In the related literature, in spite of numerous studies about the staff and customer interactions, number of the research that investigates the interactions of the customers with other customers is still limited. In this study, it was aimed to identify the critical incidents which positively or negatively impact customers' flight experience and are originated from other customers in the sample of airway companies. With this purpose, 478 critical incidents were obtained by an open-ended style questionnaire from 206 domestic tourists who had participated Antalya city tour. These incidents were firstly categorized as positive and negative; then the characteristics of the incidents in both categories were compared to each other by relying on three main process of flight experience, which are 'boarding', 'flight' and 'landing'. The obtained results showed that number of the negative customer interactions was higher than positive interactions. Thus, it is necessary for airway companies to identify negative customer interactions particularly and to solve the occurred problems for their business success.