Resumo

SILVEIRA, Juliana Quintanilha da; MEZA, Lidia Angulo  e  MELLO, João Carlos Correia Baptista Soares de. Use of DEA and inverted frontier for airlines benchmarking and anti-benchmarking identification. Prod. [online]. 2012, vol.22, n.4, pp. 788-795.  Epub 26-Jan-2011. ISSN 0103-6513.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0103-65132011005000004.

The increase of the air transportation sector competition in recent years has changed this market dynamics, leading airlines to seek new strategies to ensure their position. This article aims to analyze the performance of Brazilian air carriers regarding their operational management after the crisis of the sector in 2006. The analysis of the companies' efficiency in 2007 is done by comparing the results obtained with a classic DEA model to those obtained with the Inverted Frontier method. This paper includes the identification of the airlines with the best and the worst managerial practices.

Palavras-chave : Air transport; Data Envelopment Analysis; Benchmarking.