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Air Asia named world's best budget airline at Skytrax awards
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SME Times News Bureau | 21 Jun, 2017
Air Asia, and Air Asia X won
four awards at the Skytrax Awards here at the Paris airshow on Tuesday,
including that for world's best low-cost airline.
At the awards,
dubbed as the "Oscars of the Aviation Industry", AirAsia X scooped up
the World's Best Low-Cost Airline Premium Cabin and World's Best
Low-Cost Airline Premium Seat awards for the fifth straight year.
Air
Asia won awards for being the Best Low-Cost Airline in Asia for a month
year in the row, and also as World's Best Low-Cost Airline Premium
Cabin 2017 at the 2017 Skytrax World Airline Awards in the Musee de
l'Air et de l'Espace at Le Bourget Airport here.
AirAsia X Chairman Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz accepted the awards for AirAsia X.
Also present were AirAsia Group CEO Tony Fernandes and AirAsia X Thailand CEO Nadda Buranasiri.
On
behalf of Air Asia, Group Cabin Crew Head Suhaila Hassan, who has been
with the company for 20 years, accepted the award, flanked by AirAsia
ambassador David Foster and Brazilian football player Roberto Carlos. AirAsia and AirAsia X have won a combined 25 Skytrax World Airline Awards since the awards were introduced in 2001.
Fernandes
said: "Today, Asean has created a world record. We are now nine times
world champion. To put it into perspective, Brazil won the FIFA World
Cup five times, Michael Jordan was NBA champion six times and Michael
Phelps holds the record for most first place finishes at a single
Olympics with eight gold medals.
"We take the world champion
title seriously and we will strive to continue to improve for both our
guests and shareholders. Over the last 15 years we have created a great
brand and over the next 15, we want to move towards One AirAsia, a truly
Asean community airline. We also want to recreate ourselves as a
digital airline and use technology to drive more value." Hassan
said, "It's been an incredible 20 years, being part of AirAsia's journey
from a domestic Malaysian airline to the world's best."
The
Skytrax Awards are the global benchmark of airline excellence with over
19.9 million customer surveys completed worldwide by more than 105
nationalities, measuring standards across 49 key performance indicators
of an airline's frontline products and services.
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