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Top Ten Airports in the World

By NewsRoom24 on March 29th, 2014 / Views
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Singapore Changi Airport – with its own rooftop swimming pool – has been voted the World’s Best Airport at the 2014 World Airport Awards at the Passenger Terminal Expo in Barcelona. The results are based on customer satisfaction surveys, and this year the survey garnered nearly 13 million responses.

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It is the first time that Changi Airport has won the top accolade twice in a row, and the fifth time that the airport has been named the world’s favourite airport.

South Korea’s Incheon International Airport took second spot, while Munich Airport was in third place.

The World Airport Awards are based on 12.85 million customer nominations across 110 nationalities of air travellers, and included 410 airports worldwide.

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Lee Seow Hiang, chief executive officer of Changi Airport Group, said, “We are honoured to be named World’s Best Airport for the second consecutive year. We appreciate the support given to us by travellers from around the world. This recognition is great motivation for us and spurs us to continue to aim higher. At Changi Airport, we remain steadfast in anticipating the needs of our customers, which is the cornerstone of the Changi Experience. We share this honour with our airport community, for their unyielding commitment to service excellence and with our passengers, for their vote of confidence.”

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Edward Plaisted, chief executive officer of Skytrax, said: “Changi Airport offers a travel experience in itself and continues to develop its quality standards to be named the world’s favourite airport again. Changi Airport demonstrates how to make the airport experience an enjoyable part of the journey that is so important in today’s fast-moving world.”

Changi Airport also received the Best Airport for Leisure Amenities award at the event held at the Passenger Terminal EXPO in Barcelona, Spain.

Skytrax’s World’s Best Airports in 2014:

Singapore Changi Airport
Incheon International Airport
Munich Airport
Hong Kong International Airport
Amsterdam Schiphol Airport
Tokyo International Airport (Haneda)
Beijing Capital International Airport
Zurich Airport
Vancouver International Airport
London Heathrow Airport

Five of the top 10 airports are in Asia, four are in Europe and just one is in North America. Heathrow was voted the world’s 10th best airport for the second year running. It also won awards for World’s Best Airport Terminal for Terminal 5 for a third year and Best Airport Shopping for the fourth consecutive year.

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