Austrian Airlines was named winner of the Award for the World's Best Business Class Airline Catering for Product Quality 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 Best Business Class Airline category are Turkish Airlines taking 2nd place in the category, ahead of Qatar Airways in 3rd position.

Best Business Class Airline Catering 1 Austrian Airlines 2 Turkish Airlines 3 Qatar 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
“We offer our congratulations to Austrian Airlines for their double award this year. Staff Service Excellence Europe indicates that Austrian Airlines are exceeding their passenger’s expectations across all frontline service positions. Best Business Class Catering is now a very competitive category in the Premium section of the awards. As many airlines no longer offer First Class, there has been significant development of Business Class catering concepts and Austrian are meeting a very good product and service standard in this cabin.”