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EMIRATES wins the World's Best Airline Inflight Entertainment Award at the World Airline Awards




Emirates was named winner of the World's Best Airline Inflight Entertainment award 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 Inflight Entertainment category are Singapore Airlines, taking 2nd place in this category, ahead of Cathay Pacific Airways.


Best Airline Inflight Entertainment

1

Emirates

2

Singapore Airlines

3

Cathay Pacific Airways

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

"Emirates seems to have a very firm grip on this title, having been named the winner of world's Best Airline Inflight Entertainment Award for many successive years" said Edward Plaisted, CEO of Skytrax. "With the increased level of competition amongst airlines to deliver the best standards of inflight entertainment, it is an even greater achievement for Emirates that they can stay at No 1 spot again in 2011."




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Top 3 Airline results

EMIRATES

Emirates is the largest airline in the Middle East, operating over 2,400 passenger flights per week, from its hub at Dubai International Airport Terminal 3, to 111 cities in 62 countries across six continents. The company also operates three of the world's ten longest non-stop commercial flights from Dubai to Los Angeles, San Francisco and Houston. Several new destinations are added each year. In 2010 the airline was the sixth-largest airline in the world in terms of international passengers carried, and largest in the world in terms of scheduled international passenger-kilometres flown.

 

SINGAPORE AIRLINES

Singapore Airlines is one of the world's leading carriers, flying to 5 continents across the globe. It was the first airline to operate the A380, and flies to 62 destinations in 35 countries on six continents from its primary hub in Singapore. It has a strong presence in the Southeast Asian region, which together with its subsidiary SilkAir, connects Singapore with more international destinations in the region than any other Southeast Asian airline.

CATHAY PACIFIC AIRWAYS

Cathay Pacific Airways is the flag carrier of Hong Kong, with its head office and main hub located at Hong Kong International Airport. The airline's operations include scheduled passenger and cargo services to 114 destinations in 36 countries worldwide, including codeshares and joint ventures.






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TAM Linhas Aéreas Best Airline South America

Virgin America is Best Low-Cost Airline N America

ANA All Nippon Airways wins Best Airport Services

easyJet is named Europe's Best Low-Cost Airline

TACA Service Excellence for C America / Caribbean

China Southern Airlines Most Improved Airline

Aeroflot recognised as Best Airline Eastern Europe

Air New Zealand has Best Premium Economy





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