Southwest Airlines began business on June 18, 1971. Originally flights only flew between Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio in Texas. However, as of September 30, 2014, Southwest was named the largest domestic air carrier in the United States, by the measurement of the number of domestic originating passengers boarded, and now flies to 93 destinations, 40 of which are US states and the rest are near-international markets. Two huge, recent accomplishments for Southwest includes the completion of
inputs, the gap between total revenue and total cost increases leading to greater profits. Kaci (2009) argued that increase in productivity leads to low fares, high profits, increase in dividends for investors, high wages and high tax revenue for the government. Since the Indian aviation firms are generally in losses, as conceived, exploring the changes in the productivity of the firms would be intrusting. The goal of the chapter is to calculate the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) of the Indian Aviation