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To improve satisfaction, airlines need to understand how consumer satisfaction can be enhanced in service failure incidents such as flight delays. As air travel recovers, understanding how service failures impact satisfaction and how they can be mitigated is crucial. Therefore, this study measures consumer airline satisfaction based on 129,880 observations of airline passengers (Study 1). It conducts data mining to predict that service convenience influences service failure perception (flight delay) and enhances consumer satisfaction (Study 2). The results indicate interesting trends. It is found that service convenience is the primary driver of delayed service failure recovery from the perspective of airline passengers. 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