A prestigious global airline ranking has been released, and no European airlines have achieved the highest rating.
Each year since 1999, Skytrax, an international air transport rating organisation based in London, has awarded five-star ratings to just a handful of operators.
This year, the top ten is made up of exclusively Asian and Middle Eastern airlines with no European carriers in sight.
Recognised as a top evaluation system grading airlines on quality, Skytrax’s five-star Airline Rating puts operators through rigorous tests to see if they’re entitled to the top ranking.
The body shies away from evaluating customer reviews, which, it says, “cannot provide a consistent, unified global quality rating system for the airline industry”.
