Evaluating Turkish Airports Efficiencies Using Data Envelopment Analysis

Abstract

After the second half of the 20th century, airline transportation increased very rapidly and constituted today’s the most important transportation sector. In addition, increasing globalization all over the world raised the consumer demand for transportation services. Therefore, consumer demand for airline transportation has increased over the few decades. Accordingly, airports which are the infrastructure of the aviation sector became crucially important for maintaining such growing demand. In this context, efficiency of Turkish airports becomes more important with the increasing demand and air transaction movements. In this thesis Turkish airports’ efficiency will be evaluated through the Data Envelopment Analysis. The policy which is developed at the end of this thesis is that, government function on the airport management should be revised or airport managements should be transferred from the state administration to private sector through privatization. Thus, appropriate ground will be ensured for the more efficient Turkish aviation infrastructure.