Aeroflot Russian Airlines wins the Best Airline Eastern Europe award for 2011

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Aeroflot Russian Airlines wins Best Airline Eastern Europe award for 2011

Aeroflot Russian Airlines was named the Best Airline Eastern 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 Air Astana taking 2nd place in the category, ahead of Malev Hungarian Airlines in 3rd position.

Best Airline Eastern Europe

1

Aeroflot Russian Airlines

2

Air Astana

3

Malev Hungarian 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.

Mr Edward Plaisted - CEO, Skytrax

“We congratulate Aeroflot on their first time win at the World Airline Awards with the title of Best Airline Eastern Europe. Continued development of onboard product has clearly had a positive effect on passenger satisfaction and Aeroflot can be proud of this award.”



	AEROFLOT
	Aeroflot is Russia's National carrier and largest airline. Aeroflot is among the world's oldest airlines and one of Russia's most recognised brands. Through its hub at Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow, Aeroflot operates flights to 102 destinations in 49 countries (29 destinations in Russia). Inside Russia, Aeroflot has six branches - in St. Petersburg, Sochi, Magadan, Krasnoyarsk, Kaliningrad and Vladivostok.

	AIR ASTANA
	"Air Astana was founded in 2002 and is now the principal airline of Kazakhstan. It flies 24 aircraft on 51 domestic and international routes and has developed a comprehensive network within Central Asia and the CIS from its twin hubs of Almaty and Astana. It is a joint venture between Kazakhstan's sovereign wealth fund Samruk Kazyna and BAE Systems PLC".

	MALEV HUNGARIAN AIRLINES
	Malév Hungarian Airlines is the flag carrier and principal airline of Hungary. its main operations at Budapest International Airport. From there, the airline flies to 50 cities in 34 countries worldwide using a fleet of 22 aircraft. Malév is a member of the Oneworld alliance.

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