EFFICIENCY EXAMINATION OF TURKISH AIRPORT WITH DEA APPROACH

In this paper, 40 airports in Turkey were examined with the help of Data Envelopment Analyze Model and it was aimed to measure the activities of year 2008. For this purpose, operation expenses, number of personnel, flight traffic and number of passengers were taken as input variables, whereas number of passengers/area, flight traffic/runway, total load and operation expenses were taken as output variables. The analysis was solved with DEA Solver and it was concluded that the most effective airports were Istanbul Atatürk, Antalya, Denizli ardak, Sinop, Kayseri Malatya and Van F.Melen Airports.