A Review of Data Envelopment Analysis in Airline Efficiency: State of the Art and Prospects

Table 2

Application of standard DEA combined with other methods in airline efficiency.

Papers	Airlines	Period	Methodology
[28]	33 US and European airlines	1977–1988	Standard DEA and Malmquist productivity index
[32]	16 European and US airlinesairlines	1976–1986	Standard DEA and stochastic frontier approach
[31]	21 US airlines	1983–1984	Standard DEA and Fisher Productivity Index
[34]	11 US airlines	1970–1990	DEA and free disposal hull
[35]	11 US airlines	1970–1990	Standard DEA and full disposal hull
[37]	17 European airlines	1991–1995	DEA and Tobit analysis
[33]	16 European airlines	1977–1990	Standard DEA, stochastic frontier approach, and Malmquist productivity index
[38]	38 international airlines	2000	Standard DEA and regression analysis
[27]	10 US airlines	1987–1998	Standard DEA and time-series regression
[21]	15 Taiwanese air routes	2001	Standard DEA and topic regression
[39]	14 US airlines	2004	Superefficiency and CCR
[30]	49 international airlines	2005	Standard DEAand TFP
[29]	8 US airlines	2000–2004	Standard DEAand Malmquist productivity index
[22]	17 major US airlines	1999–2008	Standard DEA and topic regression
[40]	13 US airlines	1985–2006	Standard DEA and topic analysis
[24]	27 European airlines	2000–2005	Standard DEA and bootstrapped truncated regression
[23]	58 international airlines	2007–2009	Standard DEA and bootstrapped Tobit
[41]	11 US international airlines	1992–2008	Standard DEA and topic analysis
[25]	18 European PSO airlines	2007–2009	Standard DEA and truncated regression analysis
[42]	12 international airlines	2006–2010	Standard DEA and bootstrapped truncated regression
[36]	38 international airlines	2010	Standard DEA and balanced scorecard (BSC)
[43]	10 Chinese airlines	2008–2012	Data Envelopment Analysis and Malmquist index
[44]	13 Indian airlines	2005–2012	DEA and two-way random-effects GLS regression and Tobit analysis
[45]	15 ASEAN airlines	2010–2014	DEA and bootstrapping approaches
[46]	5 ASEAN airlines	2007–2013	DEA-Malmquist and Tobit analysis
[26]	8 African airlines	2012–2016	DEA and a two-way random-effects GLS regression and a Tobit model