Benchmarking is an effective method for organizations to increase their productivity, quality
of products, reliability of processes or services. The organization may make a comparison …

In recent years there has been an exponential growth in the number of publications related
to theory and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Charnes, Cooper, and …

Airport benchmarking has become a popular tool used by economists and airport managers
alike. Within academic circles, a number of studies emerged assessing the productivity and …

Fully revised and updated to consider recent developments in the industry, the sixth edition
of Managing Airports: An International Perspective provides comprehensive and cutting …

We study the effects of ownership forms on airports' cost efficiency by applying stochastic
frontier analysis to a panel data of the world's major airports. Our key findings are:(a) …

Airport efficiency is an area of increasing interest to academics, policy makers and
practitioners. This has resulted in a body of literature applying various econometric …

The operational performance of airline includes production and consumption technologies
for transporting passengers and cargoes. By determining the performance of airlines' …

This paper reports the slacks-based measure (SBM) of efficiency of 39 Spanish airports for
years 2006 and 2007. In addition to the conventional outputs (namely aircraft traffic …

The demand for air transport services has significantly increased around the globe, which
has brought new investments in airports, which, in turn, requires in-depth efficiency analysis …

For the most part, airports are publicly or semi-publicly owned and operated with fixed
assets. As such, airports have been often considered little more than infrastructure providers …