MANAGERIAL EFFICIENCY OF BRAZILIAN AIRPORTS

Domestic airports in Brazil, especially in the northern and midwestern regions of the country, often offer the only rapid means of moving people and goods to large towns. This paper studies the issue of efficiency at 35 of these domestic airports, with a goal of identifying avenues to improvement in two dimensions. The first of these is improved management, which shows in the airport's ability to generate financial returns. The second is the physical dimension, which shows the level of utilization of airport infrastructure. The data envelopment analysis methodology was used to measure distance from the airport efficient frontier and to enable avenues to managerial improvement to be identified. Results show that the airports whose managerial efficiency is higher than 50% and physical efficiency is below 50% are in a comfortable position because these airports are yielding high value returns on management of their services while enjoying a certain idle capacity that makes it easier to maintain service quality levels. Airports where managerial efficiency is below 50% and physical efficiency is high are concentrating on providing low-value services for their airport revenues. The "stars" are those airports where physical efficiency is equal to one and managerial efficiency is greater than 50%. These airports are managerial efficient, but operate at such activity levels that they have little or no spare capacity.

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  • Authors:
    • Pacheco, R R
    • Fernandes, E
  • Publication Date: 2003-10

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  • English

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  • Accession Number: 00960813
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Files: TRIS
  • Created Date: Jul 26 2003 12:00AM