Abstract
The competitive environment of the Chinese airline industry has experienced rapid change since non-state-owned airlines entered the market in 2004. We focus on measuring the productivity changes in the Chinese airlines, especially state-owned ones after this change. The results show that non-state-owned airlines are performing better than state-owned airlines. The productivity changes of state-owned airlines are mainly driven by technical changes before or after the entries of non-state-owned airlines. They have little efficiency improvement. However, the productivity changes of private airlines are mainly due to efficiency improvement. The changes associated with international joint venture cargo carrier are due to its significant improvement in both the efficiency and technical changes.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 320-324 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Journal of Air Transport Management |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Nov 2010 |
Funding
sThe author would like to thank anonymous referees for their comments and is grateful to the research support provided by Lingnan University. The research assistance provided by Minqian Cao is gratefully acknowledged.
Keywords
- Airline ownership types
- Malmquist productivity indices
- Technical changes
- Technical efficiency