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Along with the deepening of world economic integration and the improvement of people’s life quality, the world economy has undergone tremendous changes. As a result, besides air transportation, other industries have been subject to the impact of the tremendous changes. According to relevant statistical data, since 2003, both the passenger throughput and cargo throughput of air transportation worldwide have maintained stable growth. In this paper, focus was placed on the airport as one of basic and important factors in air transportation, to evaluate its efficiency. The two-stage DEA model was used to divide the overall efficiency into 2 stages. At the first stage, the operational efficiency was evaluated. The operation cost, the number of runways, the terminal area and the number of employees were taken as inputs, while the passenger throughput, the cargo throughput and aircraft movements were taken as outputs. At the second stage, the revenue efficiency was evaluated. Variables which were taken as outputs at the first stage were used as inputs, and revenues were taken as outputs. Moreover, Wilcoxon rank-sum test, Kruskal-Wallis test and regression analysis were also adopted. In this research, focus was also placed on investigating the impact of geographical location, airport size, whether listed or not, whether managed by grouping enterprises, and the proportion of international airlines and other variables on the operational efficiency of airports. Research results show that major cities worldwide generally have problems of low revenue efficiency. Airports in North America were significantly less efficient than other regions; the overall efficiency and operational efficiency of small airports are higher than big airports; the revenue efficiency of listed airports is lower than non-listed airport ; the overall efficiency and revenue efficiency of airports rise along with an increase in the proportion of international airlines.