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Long-haul ranks high |
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Ranking
ahead of many international airlines, SriLankan Airlines was
rated the sixth best long-haul airline at the Observer Travel
awards in Melbourne. The poll was conducted by the UK news papers,
The Observer, Guardian and website Guardian Unlimited among
twenty two thousand people, the Observer of 16 th May 2004 reported.
SriLankan Airlines was ranked ahead of British Airways, Lufthansa,
Thai Airways, Virgin Atlantic, Qantas and Qatar Airways. Singapore
Airlines was voted the best long-haul airline.
The survey was carried out in February and readers rated the
quality of service they received by ticking one of four boxes:
excellent, good, fair or poor. These results were scored from
three to zero and the total score was divided by the number
of coupons and translated into a percentage to arrive at the
results.
The annual awards for Observer and Guardian readers top holiday
experience also announced that Sri Lanka had been ranked 12th
as the favourite long-haul country among readers.
SriLankan swept up the title Best Airline in Central Asia and
the Indian subcontinent for the fourth consecutive year in the
Airline of the year 2004 survey by Skytrax, the worlds largest
survey of airline passengers. This added to its haul of accolades
which include the Skytrax “World’s Friendliest Cabin
Crew” award in 2002, the TTG (Asia) “Best Airline
in South Asia” award, first runner up in 2002 for the
Skytrax “Best Cabin Staff” award, Avion’s
best inflight entertainment award in 2003 for a fleet size of
less than 20 and Reise & Preise magazines “Best Airline,”
in the 2003 survey of Economy class passengers.
Building on its reputation and exploiting upbeat global economic
conditions, SriLankan Airlines is expanding its route network
in the summer of 2004 with plans to intensify resource deployment
in winter. With the launch of flights to Calicut, SriLankan
would fly to 42 destinations in 23 countries in July.
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June 17th 2004 |
