Airline honoured with three Skytrax Awards; Airline of the Year, Best Airline in the Middle East and ‘Best Business Class Seat’
Qatar Airways has been honoured with three of the top aviation accolades at the annual Skytrax World Airline Awards, winning Airline of the Year for a third time.
The three awards included Best Airline in the Middle East, which Qatar Airways has won for the eighth time; Best Business Class Airline Seat, and Airline of the Year.
Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive Officer Akbar Al Baker said: “Qatar Airways strives to offer the best travel experience for its guests across our entire global network, with a commitment to providing quality services to each and every of one our passengers.
“These accolades reflect our passengers’ satisfaction, they choose to fly with a five-star airline and today they have chosen Qatar Airways as the World’s Best Airline for the third year. Our passengers are at the heart of everything we do at Qatar Airways, and we are very proud to be recognised by them and to receive these three Skytrax awards.”
The Skytrax World Airline Awards, held today at the Musee de l'Air et de l' Espace, Paris Air Show, are widely known as the Passengers Choice Awards with millions of travellers, from 160 different countries, participating in passenger satisfaction surveys to decide 2015’s winners.
Qatar Airway’s modern fleet is on display at the Paris Air Show 2015, the airline is showcasing the best of its latest generation aircraft with five on display – the Airbus A380, A350 XWB, A320 and A319 and a Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
Qatar Airways, is a five star ranked carrier, is one of the fastest growing airlines operating one of the youngest fleets in the world. Qatar Airways flies 160 aircraft to 147 key business and leisure destinations across six continents.
Qatar Airways, the national carrier of the State of Qatar, is one of the fastest growing airlines operating one of the youngest fleets in the world.Qatar Airways has a modern fleet of 160 aircraft flying to 147 key business and leisure destinations across six continents. Qatar Airways is a member of the oneworld global alliance. The award-winning alliance was named the World’s Best Airline Alliance 2014 by Skytrax for the second year running. Qatar Airways was the first Gulf carrier to join global airline alliance, oneworld, enabling its passengers to benefit from more than 1,000 airports in more than 150 countries, with 14,250 daily departures.
Qatar Airways recently launched Oryx One, an enhanced interface for its inflight entertainment system, increasing the number of movies and TV shows on board from 950 to up to 2,000. Passengers flying on Qatar Airways flights served by its B787, A350, A380, A319 and select A330 aircraft can also stay in touch with their friends and family around the world by using the five-star airline’s on-board Wifi and GSM service.
For more information, visit www.qatarairways.com
