Measuring the efficiency of Mexican airports

This paper examines, by means of data envelopment analysis, the operational performance of 37 major airports in Mexico. Three analyses are performed considering returns to scale and efficiency scores: constant return to scale composed by technical and scale efficiency, variable return to scale based on pure technical efficiency, and a ratio of these two to measure scale efficiency. Four Mexican airports achieve overall efficiency. Some hypotheses are tested to validate managerial recommendations and derive policy implications.