Research On Efficiency Assessment Of Regional Aircraft Selection

The regional aviation of China draws worldwide attention along with the rapid expansion of regional aviation and the emerging domestic regional aircraft ARJ21. Aircraft efficiency assessment is a critical technology of aircraft selection. Aircraft efficiency assessment is significant to airlines because it affects the operating cost directly, and the correctness of assessment could determine the future and market of airlines to a certain extent.First, this thesis presents the basic principles of assessment and contents of aircraft selection, the concepts of comprehensive assessment, and points out the significance of efficiency assessment in the procedure of aircraft selection. It establishes an efficiency assessment of regional aircraft selection procedure base on the comprehensive assessment methodology. Second, this thesis presents the concepts and process of configuration to the efficiency assessment of regional aircraft selection, establishes methodology to the efficiency assessment of regional aircraft selection through the initial index system establishment and index optimization. It deploys the methodology base on the regional aircraft operational data of Chinese civil aviation from 2006 to 2009, and analyses the final index selected combine with reality. Third, this thesis chooses assessment methodology - Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), analyses technical efficiency, pure technical efficiency, scale efficiency of sample aircraft horizontally, orders technical efficiency vertically and validates the order. Finally, this thesis analyses regional jet aircraft from a market demand horizon.