Track: Operations Management

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate and to discuss the relative efficiency of the main Brazilian carriers in the period from 2000-2006 and 2012 - 2016, by comparing their operational and relative efficiency with international airlines chosen from among benchmarks in this industry. These data, originally collected in 2008, were updated according to the IATA yearbook for the period 2012-2016. For this purpose, the airlines were grouped into 3 classes: Full Cost Companies (FCC’s), Low Cost Companies (LCC’s) and Regionals and 4 scenarios were established. In two of these scenarios (I and II), they were compared, independently of the category and in two of them (scenario III and IV) the comparison was established with airlines of the corresponding class (FCC’s and Regionals). In the survey, 41 international carriers were selected in North and South American, European and Asian markets. The method used in this research is the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), which is a well-known family of mathematical programming tools, based on the Frontier approach. The results obtained with the utilization of software’s like EMS, and Frontier Analyst allowed to conclude that large airlines with high load factors and a concomitant production of passenger and cargo had the best efficiency score.