Bangkok Airways wins the top award as the World's Best Regional Airline for the eleventh consecutive year in the 2026 World Airline Awards. Canada’s Porter Airlines moves into second place globally, with Virgin Australia in third position.
For the World Airline Awards, regional airlines are defined as full service carriers that primarily operate domestic and / or International flights up to approx 6 hours. Whilst some regional airlines may operate a small number of longer flights, the core market for this airline classification are short / medium haul routes where customer product and service expectations are different to long haul routes.
