Efficiency Evaluation in an Airline Company. Methodologies and Applications

The pioneering work on technical efficiency of Debreu and Farrell has received renewed interest with the development of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), a mathematical programming approach to frontier estimation pioneered in Charnes, Cooper and Rhodes (1978) and extended in Banker, Charnes and Cooper (1984). This method is seeing increasing adoption as a management tool within the general framework of performance measurement and monitoring. In recent years, applications of this methodology have been reported in a variety of production contexts. The central focus of this monograph is the application of Data Envelopment Analysis models in the productive context of air transportation.