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Virgin Atlantic Airways was named the winner of the Best Transatlantic Airline Award at the 2010 World Airline Awards, that took place in Hamburg.
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BEST TRANSATLANTIC AIRLINE |
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VIRGIN ATLANTIC
AIRWAYS |
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BRITISH AIRWAYS |
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3 |
LUFTHANSA |
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Commenting on the Virgin Atlantic Award, Skytrax Chairman, Edward Plaisted said: "this is a very competitive section of the World Airline Survey,
and Virgin Atlantic Airways are clearly achieving some good levels of customer satisfaction to have been named the Best Transatlantic Airline in
the 2010 World Airline Awards. The World Airline Awards are known as 'The Passenger's Choice', and this underlines the fact that Virgin Atlantic are succeeding in satisfying the hardest
critics, actual air travellers."
The top places in this category were all taken by European airlines, with British Airways in 2nd position and Lufthansa 3rd place.
SKYTRAX 2010 WORLD AIRLINE AWARDS - the Passengers Choice Awards
Over 40 airlines from around the world assembled at the World Airline Awards in Hamburg to receive their accolades. The award winners are selected by the airline industry's most important audience
- it's customers.
More than 17.9 million air travellers from over 100 different nationalities took
part in the 10 month survey, July 2009 to April 2010. The awards are respected
and recognised around the world for being the only truly global, independent
passenger survey of airline standards. The World Airline Awards were established
in 1999, and are known across the globe as the Passengers Choice awards. The 2009/2010 Survey included over 200 airlines, from largest international airlines to domestic carriers. |
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