Air Cargo Service Competitiveness of Major Asian Airports

This paper aims to evaluate and assess the competitiveness of airports by analyzing the efficiency of airports in Northeast Asia. The research implements data envelopment analysis (DEA) to compare the competition level of airport efficiency and related decisionmaking ability, as determined by the top ranking freight operations among the airports in this region. Due to a lack of prior work with regard to the competitiveness of hub concentrated airports in air cargo volume, the variables have been screened for selection through reference documents and records related to air freight. Lastly, aviation freight experts assisted in the final selection of the relevant variables for this work. Results of the analysis show that the larger airports in Northeast Asia are positively correlated with higher efficiency. In contrast, inefficient airports have suffered from over capacity or insufficient input.