Oh i don't doubt that filtered incandescents are worse. But just lm/w versue lm/w as if we're comparing LPS to HPS or something, makes them about on par.
Well, it does not. Comparing dedicated colored runway lights with unfiltered incandescents is by far not the same as "LPS vs HPS", not even the slightest.
Comparing efficiencies (efficacy is an efficiency figure, just tailored for particular field) makes sense only for the given task. By the way that is exactly the reason, why blanket statement like "incandescents are the most ineficient lamps" does not hold just by itself either, when there are quite a few applications where the IR are not the losses, but the useful output; by the way when compared by the installed power, this use is the dominant for common households (the common IR cook tops have installed power about 2..10 kW of incanmdescent sources, stoves have about 2kW top IR incandescent heater as well, while all lights together are barely 1 kW or so). And the incandescent heater sources have efficiencies in the 90% range...
So if we are talking about runway lights function, it means it has to be red only. So whatever way the light is generated, it always leads to SomeEnergy in, only red light out. And there the Neons are the more efficient, as everything beside the red is just waste losses. And it does not matter if these are IR, convection heat or yellow, green or blue light or IR radiation.
HPS vs LPS implies comparing both used as general illumination. And there all lumens (so watts of visible light, corrected for the eye sensitivity curve) count, regardless of the color (assume the metrics does not care about light quality).