Swiss International Air Lines was named the Best Airline Western Europe at the 2011 World Airline Awards, in a ceremony held in the French Air and Space Museum at the Paris Air Show.

The runners-up in this category are Lufthansa taking 2nd place in the category, ahead of Austrian Airlines in 3rd position.

Best Airline Western Europe 1 Swiss International Air Lines 2 Lufthansa 3 Austrian Airlines Voted by over 18.8 million airline passengers from 100 different nationalities, the World Airline Awards are the most prestigious quality recognition of front-line product and service standards for the world airline industry. With 200 airlines featured, the awards measure customer satisfaction levels across 38 different items of airline front-line product and service.

SWISS - Mr Frank Maier, Managing Director, Product & Services "We are very pleased to receive this award, because it demonstrates to us that our product and service strategy is well appreciated by our customers. We aim to offer our customers a travel experience that is as pleasant, smooth and seamless as possible, with consistently high-quality service on the ground and in the air. And we will carry on doing everything we can to offer our customers continually high quality standards."

	Mr Edward Plaisted - CEO, Skytrax
“In arguably Europe’s most competitive region, SWISS can be proud of their success in this year Best Airline Western Europe category. We congratulate them on another strong performance - passengers clearly feel that the overall package of product and service is worthy of this prestigious award.”