A DEA study of airlines in India

The objective of this study is to investigate the technical and scale efficiencies of all airlines across service type, size and ownership structures operating in India during 2006–2010. The variable returns to scale (VRS) model of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) with two inputs and two outputs is u...

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Published in:Asia Pacific management review 2015-12, Vol.20 (4), p.285-292
Main Authors: Jain, Ravi Kumar, Natarajan, Ramachandran
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Airline industry
Airlines in India
Aviation
Data envelopment analysis
DEA
Economic models
Economics
Efficiency
Input efficiency profiling
Operations research
Principal components analysis
Productivity
Scale efficiency
Strategic management
Technical efficiency
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Summary:The objective of this study is to investigate the technical and scale efficiencies of all airlines across service type, size and ownership structures operating in India during 2006–2010. The variable returns to scale (VRS) model of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) with two inputs and two outputs is used. For additional insights, Input Efficiency Profiling (IEP) model of DEA is also used. The key findings are: a large majority of budget airlines have been found to be efficient; while smaller private sector airlines have been efficient, both the larger and smaller public sector airlines have also been efficient; the public sector airlines, although incurring financial losses, are also operating at their most productive scale size; of the two inputs, there is greater inefficiency with respect to the operating cost input. These findings are consistent with other studies of airlines that found size, type of service and ownership to impact efficiency.
ISSN:1029-3132
2589-8213
DOI:10.1016/j.apmrv.2015.03.004