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2012 WINNERS |
| Best Airline Winners |
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| Best by Cabin |
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| Best Seats |
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| Best Lounges |
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| Best Catering |
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| Best by Region |
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| Staff Service winners |
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| Best Regional Airlines |
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| Best Low-Cost Airlines |
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Turkish Airlines wins the Best
Airline in Europe award for 2011 |
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Turkish Airlines was named the Best Airline 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 Swiss Intl Air Lines taking 2nd place in the category, ahead of Lufthansa in 3rd position.
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Best Airline Europe |
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Turkish Airlines |
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Swiss International Air Lines |
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Lufthansa |
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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. |
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Mr Edward Plaisted - CEO, Skytrax |
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"Turkish Airlines continues to invest in quality product and service concepts and this has been key in their success at this years
awards. We have witnessed a steady rise up the global rankings for Turkish, and this has seen them enter the top-10 (9th) for the
first time. To secure the award for Best Premium Economy Seat is further evidence that Turkish Airlines is providing passengers with
a world class onboard experience."
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TURKISH AIRLINES |
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Turkish Airlines began 78 years ago with 5 airplanes and today has 169 (passenger and cargo)
airplanes. It operates scheduled services to 139 international and 42 domestic cities (38 domestic
airports), serving a total of 181 airports, in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. The airline's
main base is at Atatürk International Airport. Starting from April 1st, 2008, THY became one of the
members of the world's largest airline alliance, namely, Star Alliance and committed to be Turkey's
rising star.
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SWISS INT'L AIRLINES |
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Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) serves 72 destinations in 39 countries all over the world
(as of summer 2011) from its Zurich hub and the further Swiss international airports of Basel
and Geneva with a fleet (as of summer 2011) of 89 aircrafts. Switzerland's airline embodies
typical Swiss values such as hospitality, quality in every detail and personal care. As part of
the Lufthansa Group and a member of Star Alliance, SWISS remains true to its mission of
providing quality air services that link Switzerland with Europe and the world.
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LUFTHANSA |
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Lufthansa is the flag carrier of Germany and the largest airline in Europe in terms of overall
passengers carried. The airline is the world's fourth-largest airline in terms of overall
passengers carried, operating services to 18 domestic destinations and 203 international
destinations in 78 countries across Africa, Americas, Asia and Europe. Together with its
partners Lufthansa services around 410 destinations. With over 710 aircrafts it has the second-
largest passenger airline fleet in the world when combined with its subsidiaries. Its main
operations base and primary traffic hub is at Frankfurt Airport in Frankfurt am Main with a
second hub at Munich Airport.
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Airline of the Year
