Turkish Airlines has picked up four awards in the Skytrax World Airline Awards, the results of which announced today (June 20) at Paris Airshow.

The awards won by Turkey’s national airline included “Best Airline in Southern Europe”, “Best Business Class Onboard Catering”, “World’s Best Business Class Lounge”, and “Best Business Class Dining Lounge”.  

The awards were presented to Turkish Airlines' chairman of the Board and the executive committee M. İlker Aycı by the CEO of Skytrax, Edward Plaisted.

Aycı stated: “Being deemed worthy of these awards is a hallmark of our outstanding effort that we show in all spheres of aviation and the steady growth that we perform in this direction.”

“Maintaining its leading position in its region, Turkish Airlines continues to be rewarded by passengers from all over the world. We achieved numerous successes till today, but we are the members of a strong, determined and self-sacrificing family that always highly motivated for greater successes as long as being rewarded. We are confident that both these motivations and our huge effort will lead us to much greater successes in the near future,” Aycı added.

Skytrax evaluates traveller experiences across different airport service and product key performance indicators. Following this evaluation process it awards the most successful organizations with its World Airline Awards described as ‘the Oscars of the aviation industry’. – TradeArabia News Service