Votes are In: Skytrax Top Airline Picks for 2019
For its 19th year running, the Skytrax World Airline Awards have spoken and the world’s top airline companies named
In what has been dubbed the “Oscars of the Aviation Industry,” Skytrax is giving out awards and accolades to airline companies dedicated to making flying into a winning experience for passengers. Introduced in 1999, the global customer satisfaction study looks at some 300 airlines and curries feedback from more than 21 million eligible comments from 100 nationalities to come up with the top airline companies year over year.
This year, not surprisingly, Qatar Airways crowned the list as the World’s Best Airline for the fifth year running. The announcements made at the Paris Air Show this week also included winners for best business class, best business seat and a host of other categories. Here are the top ten results for each prime category:
The World’s Top 10 Airlines of 2019
Qatar Airways
Singapore Airlines
ANA All Nippon Airways
Cathay Pacific
Emirates
EVA Air
Hainan Airlines
Qantas Airways
Lufthansa
Thai Airways
World’s Best Cabin Staff 2019
Singapore Airlines
Garuda Indonesia
ANA All Nippon Airways
Thai Airways
EVA Air
Cathay Pacific
Hainan Airlines
Japan Airlines
Qatar Airways
China Airlines
World’s Best Low-Cost Airlines 2019
AirAsia
easyJet
Norwegian
Southwest Airlines
AirAsiaX
Jetstar Airways
WestJet
Indigo
Ryanair
Eurowings
The World’s Cleanest Airlines
EVA Air
Japan Airlines
ANA All Nippon Airways
Singapore Airlines
Asiana Airlines
Hainan Airlines/
Swiss Int’l Air Lines
Cathay Pacific
Qatar Airways
Lufthansa
Other notable winners included Air Transat, voted the World’s Best Leisure Airline, ANA All Nippon Airways as the World’s Best Airport Services, Norwegian is the World’s Best Low-Cost Long Haul Airline, Star Alliance, for the World’s Best Airline Alliance, Philippine Airlines as the World’s Most Improved Airline, and Bangkok Airways as the World’s Best Regional Airline.
