Skytrax Annual Awards

Qantas Airways
  • Best Airline in Australia / Pacific
  • Best Premium Economy Class Catering
  • Best Business Class in Australia / Pacific
  • Best Economy Class in Australia / Pacific
  • Best Airline Cabin Cleanliness in Australia / Pacific
I really doubt Best Premium Economy Catering... in my experience NZ is meaningfully better. Rest seem fair (although cleanliness... I mean...)
 
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View from the wing pretty much slams the ratings… at least Qantas being in the top five: The List Of World's 20 Best Airlines Is Silly, At Best - View from the Wing

If you go to the skytrax site the tiny blurb under qantas says ‘known for its safety record and project sunrise which will launch non stop flights to New York’.

This smacks of the lufthansa 5* rating based on a product they hadn’t even delivered yet (new business class seating). Same with project sunrise… far from being delivered.

I’m not sure skytrax is comparing apples with apples… ‘best domestic economy’ - or even business class - should be with the caveat that your chicken panini comes at a price of $200-$300 over the competitor (and maybe five or 10 times multiplied for business class).
 
AIRwin said:
SQ is Best Airline, followed by QR, NH, EK and JL:
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Singapore Airlines is the World’s Best Airline at 2023 World Airline Awards

Singapore Airlines named World’s Best Airline at the 2023 World Airline Awards, with Qatar Airways second and ANA All Nippon Airways in 3rd position.
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Omg. There’s goes three and a half minutes of my life i can’t get back!! lol

more rubbish from skytrax. Fiji airways outranks Qantas?? Sq has the best first class seat in the sky? They may have the best ‘suite’ as in total space per passenger… but the actual seat itself? I don’t think that’s won too many awards. Come to think of it, neither has the bed.
 
And the winner is.... Singapore Airlines!

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Singapore Airlines is the World’s Best Airline at 2023 World Airline Awards

Singapore Airlines named World’s Best Airline at the 2023 World Airline Awards, with Qatar Airways second and ANA All Nippon Airways in 3rd position.
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The World’s Top 20 Airlines in 2023

Singapore Airlines
Qatar Airways
ANA All Nippon Airways
Emirates
Japan Airlines
Turkish Airlines
Air France
Cathay Pacific
EVA Air
Korean Air
Hainan Airlines
Swiss Int’l Air Lines
Etihad Airways
Iberia
Fiji Airways
Vistara
Qantas Airways
British Airways
Air New Zealand
Delta Air Lines
 
MEL_Traveller said:
more rubbish from skytrax. Fiji airways outranks Qantas??
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invested more in bribes this year?

Jokes aside it’s not a bad list. Apart from few odd ones like Hainan and Iberia I’d say the top 10 is quite accurate from unbiased pax reviews on various forums, particularly the top 3.

I’m glad QF got such low ranking because it’s definitely not top 10 airline anymore and I say that as someone who love the airline and fly mostly on QF. It needs a good shakeup in order to become world leading airline again.
 
MEL_Traveller said:
. Fiji airways outranks Qantas??
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Based on customer surveys, that’s not an unlikely result, over the past year. You don’t pi** off so many customers so consistently without some repercussion. ( But I agree re SkyTrax reputation, but as Boomy says, it’s not a bad list overall).

it’s definitely not top 10 airline anymore and I say that as someone who love the airline and fly mostly on QF. It needs a good shakeup in order to become world leading airline again.
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Agree - it’s now Vanessa Hudson’s problem to fix.
 
Given the timing of the report no surprise to see QF drop.
That said Skytrax ratings can be influenced by $$$$ changing hands.
 
Blackadder said:
That said Skytrax ratings can be influenced by $$$$ changing hands.
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Might well be the case, but the top 10 largely seems not terribly out of kilter with collective wisdom as reflected in trip reports on AFF, vloggers reports on youtube, various recommendations or indeed personal experience. On any given day you could probably swap the order of the top 2, 3, 4 or even 5 carriers and come up with a reasonably defendable outcome.
 
dajop said:
Might well be the case, but the top 10 largely seems not terribly out of kilter with collective wisdom as reflected in trip reports on AFF, vloggers reports on youtube, various recommendations or indeed personal experience. On any given day you could probably swap the order of the top 2, 3, 4 or even 5 carriers and come up with a reasonably defendable outcome.
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Well again… I dunno… Air france is there? Maybe they’re taking ecinomy class into account. But that can’t be right because Qantas offers a really really good economy product. Not many airlines as generous with alcohol, free bags and great IFE as qantas. Along with free flowing inflight snacks and fresh fruit. If air france is there because of their first class… then surely lufthansa should be too? Oman Air? Not even a look in.
 
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Oh the Qantas fanboi's not happy...

QF a shocker in recent times in so many departments, so well published including here on AFF.

But let's dismiss Skytrax, yet praise them when it suits, stock standard response.
 

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