Efficiency is a concept that has a long history in the sciences and its measurement and analysis is a vital importance for firms to achieve their best performance. Hence, the purpose of this study is to evaluate efficiency of airline members of international air transport association (IATA) in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) using non-parametric data envelopment analysis method. Data collected by statistical annual reports available in official airlines and air transport authorities websites for 20 airlines from 14 countries. These airlines have analyzed through three outputs including number of passenger carried, revenue passenger kilometre, revenue tone kilometre and three inputs namely available seat kilometre, available tone kilometre and size of fleet using two input orientation approaches of constant return to scale and variable return to scale. The results reveal that the average of efficiency in CRS and VRS models are 90% and 98% respectively. Moreover, according to nationals ranking based on airlines ratios for scale efficiency, United Arab Emirates and Sudan have gained superior and lowest situation respectively.

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