WORLD AIRLINE AWARDS™ | Passenger's Choice Awards

The World's Top 10 airlines in 2010 Awards :

1.   Asiana Airlines
2.   Singapore Airlines
3.   Qatar Airways
4.   Cathay Pacific
5.   Air New Zealand
6.   Etihad Airways
7.   Qantas Airways
8.   Emirates
9.   Thai Airways
10. Malaysia Airlines

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2010 Award winners include:

Air Arabia, Air Asia, Air Berlin, Air Canada, Air New Zealand, Asiana Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Dragonair, Emirates, Etihad Airways, Finnair, Garuda Indonesia, GOL, Hainan Airlines, IndiGo, Kingfisher Airlines, Kulula, LAN Airlines, Lufthansa, Malaysia Airlines, Malev Hungarian Airlines, Oneworld, Qantas Airways, Qatar Airways, Singapore Airlines, South African Airways, Swiss Int'l Airlines, TACA Airlines, Thai Airways, Thomson Airways, Turkish Airlines, Virgin America, Virgin Atlantic, Virgin Blue, WestJet

Asiana Airlines scoops Airline of the Year at World Airline Awards

Some 40 different airlines from around the world assembled to receive their accolades, which were handed out by Mr Edward Plaisted, Chairman of Skytrax. The Passenger's Choice 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, between July 2009 and April 2010. The awards are respected and recognised around the world for being the only truly global, independent passenger survey of airline standards.

Commenting on the Airline of the Year 2010 award received by Asiana Airlines, Mr Plaisted said: "this is a fantastic achievement for Asiana Airlines to be named winner of this top Airline of the Year Award, and Asiana Airlines are clearly meeting and exceeding their customer's expectations. This award represents a true recognition of the front-line product and service that Asiana Airlines is delivering to it's customers, and the branding of the Passenger's Choice awards underlines the fact that Asiana Airlines are succeeding in satisfying the hardest critics - their users."

Asiana Airlines President and CEO, Mr Young-Doo Yoon, said : "We would like to express our most heartfelt appreciation to our customers who voted us for Skytrax 2010 Airline of the Year Award. Asiana Airlines is extremely honoured to be recognized as the world’s top airline by our customers and to be awarded our industry’s highly esteemed accolade from Skytrax. To be the winner of the 2010 Airline of the Year Award is even more special and holds greater meaning, as it is 'the Passenger's Choice'."

World Airline Awards even bigger in 2010 ....

Skytrax announced the final passenger participation in the World Airline Survey™ between July 2009 and April 2010 totalled 17.94 million eligible completed interviews. Commenting on the results, Skytrax Chairman, Mr Edward Plaisted said "We have grown this survey year on year, and take great pride in being the only organisation to undertake a truly global study that represents the travelling public's choice of the best airlines. The geographic spread of survey interviews is supported by the fact that over 100 different nationalities of airline passengers participated, and more than 200 airlines are in the final results. Our thanks go to all those travellers that have contributed so much to the World Airline Survey, and demonstrate why these are known as the Passenger's Choice Awards"

	The Passenger's Choice Awards
	Skytrax deliver total transparency across the World Airline Survey process, and conduct the only truly global customer study. The Skytrax World Airline Awards operate on a not-for-profit basis, and the sole directive is for real airline customers to make their own honest choices as to which airline is best, and worthy of an award - which is why they are known across the globe as the Passenger's Choice awards. Airlines do not pay to be included in the World Airline Survey, nor is there a charge for winners to attend the World Airline Awards ceremony to receive their accolade. To ensure maximum credibility, complete independence and clarity of the survey and awards process, Skytrax do not accept any form of third party sponsorship. more »

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