Abstract:
In an era of ever-growing air travel, understanding and enhancing passenger satisfaction are pivotal to the success of
airlines and the overall passenger experience. Analyzing airline passenger satisfaction using tabular data can pose various challenges, both when employing classical statistical methods and when leveraging machine learning and deep learning techniques.
On the one hand statistical approaches pose various challenges including limited feature engineering techniques, the assumption
of linearity of the data sets and limited predictive power, etc. On the other hand, using machine learning and deep learning techniques, we may face other challenges such us the problem of overfitting, difficulties of interpreting data and results, requirements
of intensive resources specially using deep learning qnd the probleme of generalization if we deploy machine learning based
approaches. This paper presents a novel deep learning approach utilizing TabNet, a specialized neural network architecture for
tabular data, to classify airline passenger satisfaction. Leveraging a comprehensive dataset comprising various passenger-related
attributes, including flight details, service quality, and demographic information, our TabNet-based model demonstrates exceptional performance in distinguishing between satisfied and dissatisfied passengers. Our model’s robustness in handling tabular
data, underscores its power as a valuable tool for the aviation industry. Comparing out results to recent papers show that out
model outperforms these studies in terms of accuracy, precision, recall and AUC. The results show that our TabNet Network
model outperforms all implemented machine learning models by reaching respectively the following results :96.47%, 96.41%
and 96.24% for accuracy, F1-score and G-mean score.