Monday, May 24, 2010

Skytrax vs the BOOT - airline of the year rankings


Every year Skytrax publishes the results of their Annual World Airline Awards survey, Most years since the launch of the BOOT I follow up by ranking my top airline choices against the Skytrax winners. [here are my 2006 rankings and 2008 rankings].

This year I have the added content weight of 10 airline seat reviews to draw on (all here). On to the list

Skytrax top ten Airlines of the Year 2010

  1. Asiana Airlines
  2. Singapore Airlines
  3. Qatar Airways
  4. Cathay Pacific
  5. Air New Zealand
  6. Etihad Airways
  7. Qantas Airways
  8. Emirates
  9. Thai Airways
  10. Malaysia Airlines

[notes SQ down a place, CX down two places and Qantas down 4 place]

The BOOT's top five airlines
  1. Cathay Pacific (up 3 places due to new herringbone seats)
  2. Virgin Atlantic (steady)
  3. British Airways (steady - despite crew troubles their flat bed seat is still a winner)
  4. Qantas (up a spot)
  5. Singapore Airlines (down 4 spots - I don't like the new seat. Too wide, not long enough).
Where do you stand?

Update (check out the Professor's rankings here)

Update 2 - why Cathay just beats Virgin Atlantic in my rankings in a post "Cathay Pacific vs Virgin Atlantic business class - the battle of the herringbone seats"

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