THE PERFORMANCE COMPARISON OF TURKISH MAJOR AIRPORTS IN DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL LINES

It is aimed to compare the performance levels of major airports that operate in domestic and international lines in Turkey. For this, the search of the efficiency and productivity of these big airports are done with the usage of data belongs to 2015 and 2016 years. The performance of an airport is compared with others by the effiency, while the performance of the airports are compared with their last terms by the productivity. Data Envelopment Analysis Model is preferred to use. Three input variables (number of employees, terminal area and aircraft capacity) with two output variables (total passenger number and total freight) are used as data. The results of the analysis have shown that İstanbul Atatürk and Adana airports have the highest efficiency in domestic lines for both of the years. İstanbul Atatürk and Antalya airports have the highest efficiency in international lines. It has also determined that Trabzon airport has the highest, while Diyarbakır airport has the lowest productivity in domestic lines. Mardin airport has the highest, while Diyarbakır airport has the lowest productivity in international lines.