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Airlines performance in the new market context: A comparative productivity and efficiency analysis

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  • Barbot, Cristina
  • Costa, Ã lvaro
  • Sochirca, Elena

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This paper analyses airlines’ efficiency and productivity using two different methodologies: data envelopment analysis and total factor productivity, and we additionally investigate which factors account for differences in efficiency. Our main findings show that low-cost carriers are in general more efficient than full-service carriers, efficiency and the dispersion of both data envelopment analysis and total factor productivity indexes amongst airlines differ according to geographical areas, which may be a result of different legislation and de-regulation processes, and so of specific competitive conditions, labour is the only input that definitively influences productivity, and larger airlines are more efficient, suggesting the existence of economies of scale.

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  • Barbot, Cristina & Costa, Ã lvaro & Sochirca, Elena, 2008. "Airlines performance in the new market context: A comparative productivity and efficiency analysis," Journal of Air Transport Management, Elsevier, vol. 14(5), pages 270-274.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jaitra:v:14:y:2008:i:5:p:270-274
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2008.05.003
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