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

Table 3

Application of extended DEA in airline efficiency.

Papers	Airlines	Period	Methodology
[13]	16 US airlines	1981–1985	Maximum likelihood DEA framework
[60]	14 international airlines	1988–1994	Dynamic DEA
[51]	17 European airlines	1991–1995	Stochastic DEA
[65]	7 Canadian airlines	1960–1999	DEA model with adjustment costs and regulatory constraints
[57]	21 US airlines	2007–2008	Two-stage network DEA
[53]	34 Brazilian and American airlines	1997–2006	Two-phase DEA
[54]	15 US airlines	2006–2008	Network DEA and two-dimensional efficiency decomposition
[55]	30 US airlines	2010	Two-stage network DEA
[66]	12 US airlines	2008–2011	Service quality-adjusted DEA and Mann–Whitney test
[67]	10 US airlines	1998–2010	B-convex DEA model
[68]	7 Chinese airlines	2011	Nonarchimedes dimensionless CCR
[47]	48 international airlines	2007–2010	Bootstrapped DEA
[49]	42 US and European airlines	2001–2005	Bootstrapped DEA and bootstrapped truncated regression
[56]	27 US airlines	2012	Three-stage unoriented network DEA
[62]	11 international airlines	2008–2012	Virtual frontier benevolent DEA cross-efficiency model
[61]	19 Latin American airlines	2010–2014	A two-stage approach combining virtual frontier dynamic DEA and simplex regression
[69]	18 international airlines	2008–2014	Dynamic environmental DEA
[52]	87 European airlines	2000–2010	Network DEA
[59]	8 Iranian airlines	2010–2012	Dynamic network DEA
[50]	13 international airlines	2006–2014	Stochastic network DEA (SNDEA)
[48]	14 international airlines	2006–2015	Bootstrapping DEA and double bootstrap regression
[63]	30 international airlines	2012–2016	DEA with superefficiency and intertemporal approach
[64]	7 Iranian airlines	2010–2012	Dynamic network DEA with fuzzy inputs and outputs