EFFICIENCY EVALUATION OF TURKISH AIRPORTS WITH DEA AND MALMQUIST-TFP INDEX APPROACH

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The need to reach one place from a place that is part of human life is provided bydifferent modes of transportation according to the possibilities and needs that areavailable. Airline transport is also unique and has an important place in our liveswith superior features compared to other modes of transportation. There are manyelements within the air transport system in ensuring air transport. Airports are themainstay of these elements. Today, assessing the performance of airport operatorsoperating as a business is important to ensure efficiency. Through performanceevaluation, useful information can be generated for managers to take decisionsthat will be of benefit to the business. In this study, taking into account all these 27airports operated by the DHM in Turkey was subjected to performance evaluationunder certain criteria. In this context, the productivity change between 2012-2016 of the selected airports with Malmquist-TFP productivity index which is a frequently used Data Envelopment Analysis technique in literature is examined.According to the results of the analysis, the total factor productivity increased by3.6% on average in the related period.