Emirates named World’s Best Airline
Emirates has been named the World’s Best Airline for 2016 at the Skytrax World Airline Awards. At the same event, Emirates scooped the awards for the World’s Best Inflight Entertainment for a record 12th consecutive year,and Best Airline in the Middle East.
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The awards are considered by industry players as a global benchmark for airline excellence and Emirates has won the top accolade four times since the event was introduced 15 years ago.
Emirates won the first-ever Skytrax World’s Best Airline in 2001, again in 2002 and in 2013. The airline has won a total of 20 Skytrax World Airline Awards since 2001. This year, the Skytrax Awards, which is also known as the Passengers’ Choice Awards, was based on a total of 19.2 million completed questionnaires covering 280 airlines by customers hailing from more than 104 countries.
This makes it the largest airline passenger satisfaction survey in the industry. The Skytrax Survey measures quality standards across 41 key performance indicators of front-line products and services in the airline industry.
Inflight entertainment
Emirates’ unbeaten 12-year run as winner of the World’s Best Inflight Entertainment Award, is thanks to its industry-leading ice entertainment system, which currently boasts an incredible 2,689 different channels for passengers to choose from – including over 90 dedicated children’s channels.
With channels ranging from the latest blockbuster movies, award-winning television box sets, comedy series, live TV, music and computer games, ice is constantly expanding its offerings for even greater choice.
The airline has also expanded Live TV across its fleet, including Live TV Sports Channels featuring high-profile sporting events, including this year’s Rio Olympics.
The President of Emirates Airline, Sir Tim Clark, was full of joy when he received the three awards at the event. “We are honoured to be recognised by the prestigious Skytrax Awards. Emirates has always put our customers at the heart of what we do, and we work hard to deliver the very best experience possible to our customers at every touch point, every day, all around the world.”
