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[Jollygoodfellow]

Air NZ overtakes Qantas in air awardsAir New Zealand has jumped past Qantas Airways at the annual world airline awards.Air New Zealand climbed from eighth-best in the world at last year's awards to fifth for 2010, and was also named best Australia-Pacific airline in Hamburg, Germany.Its rival across the Tasman, Qantas, dropped to seventh place, down from sixth last year. In 2008, it was rated the world's third-best airline.South Korea's Asiana Airlines won the overall title, after being placed third last year.The annual awards by Skytrax are based on surveys of 17.9 million passengers of 100 different nationalities over the 10 months to April.Passengers rated airlines on customer service, comfort of seating, quality of food, lounges and cabin crew.Air New Zealand also won an award for staff service in the Australia/Pacific region.Yesterday, it was separately named best airline at the 2010 Which? Magazine awards in Britain, which were judged on customer service.Air New Zealand received a value-for-money rating of 89 per cent, compared with the industry average of 66 per cent and 98 per cent of passengers said they would recommend the airline to a friend.Air New Zealand has picked up more global industry accolades overnight, taking out two Skytrax Awards for the Best Airline Australia/Pacific and the Staff Service Excellence Award for the Australia/Pacific region.The final top 10 ranking in the awards were:1. Asiana Airlines2. Singapore Airlines3. Qatar Airways4. Cathay Pacific5. Air New Zealand6. Etihad Airways7. Qantas Airways8. Emirates9. Thai Airways10. Malaysia AirlinesOther awards announced included:Best Low-Cost Airline WorldwideAirAsiaMost Improved AirlineGaruda IndonesiaBest Cabin StaffSingapore AirlinesBest Inflight EntertainmentEmiratesBest Airport ServicesThai AirwaysBest Economy ClassMalaysia AirlinesBest Premium Economy ClassQantasBest Business ClassQatar AirwaysBest First ClassEtihad AirwaysBest Airline: TransatlanticVirgin AtlanticBest Airline: TranspacificCathay PacificBest Airline: Australia/PacificAir New ZealandBest Airline: EuropeLufthansaBest Airline: India/Central AsiaKingfisher AirlinesBest Airline: Middle EastQatar AirwaysBest Airline: North AmericaAir CanadaBest Airline: South East AsiaSingapore AirlinesBest Airline Lounge - Business ClassVirgin AtlanticBest Airline Lounge - First ClassThai AirwaysBest Airline Seat - Business ClassSingapore AirlinesBest Airline Seat - Economy ClassKingfisher AirlinesBest Airline Seat - First ClassEtihad AirwaysBest Airline Seat - Premium Economy ClassQantas AirwaysBest Low-Cost Airline Australia/PacificVirgin BlueBest Onboard Catering - Business ClassQatar AirwaysBest Onboard Catering - Economy ClassTurkish AirlinesBest Onboard Catering - First ClassEtihad

[Singers]

Air NZ overtakes Qantas in air awardsAir New Zealand has jumped past Qantas Airways at the annual world airline awards.Air New Zealand climbed from eighth-best in the world at last year's awards to fifth for 2010, and was also named best Australia-Pacific airline in Hamburg, Germany.Its rival across the Tasman, Qantas, dropped to seventh place, down from sixth last year. In 2008, it was rated the world's third-best airline.South Korea's Asiana Airlines won the overall title, after being placed third last year.The annual awards by Skytrax are based on surveys of 17.9 million passengers of 100 different nationalities over the 10 months to April.Passengers rated airlines on customer service, comfort of seating, quality of food, lounges and cabin crew.Air New Zealand also won an award for staff service in the Australia/Pacific region.Yesterday, it was separately named best airline at the 2010 Which? Magazine awards in Britain, which were judged on customer service.Air New Zealand received a value-for-money rating of 89 per cent, compared with the industry average of 66 per cent and 98 per cent of passengers said they would recommend the airline to a friend.Air New Zealand has picked up more global industry accolades overnight, taking out two Skytrax Awards for the Best Airline Australia/Pacific and the Staff Service Excellence Award for the Australia/Pacific region.The final top 10 ranking in the awards were:1. Asiana Airlines2. Singapore Airlines3. Qatar Airways4. Cathay Pacific5. Air New Zealand6. Etihad Airways7. Qantas Airways8. Emirates9. Thai Airways10. Malaysia AirlinesOther awards announced included:Best Low-Cost Airline WorldwideAirAsiaMost Improved AirlineGaruda IndonesiaBest Cabin StaffSingapore AirlinesBest Inflight EntertainmentEmiratesBest Airport ServicesThai AirwaysBest Economy ClassMalaysia AirlinesBest Premium Economy ClassQantasBest Business ClassQatar AirwaysBest First ClassEtihad AirwaysBest Airline: TransatlanticVirgin AtlanticBest Airline: TranspacificCathay PacificBest Airline: Australia/PacificAir New ZealandBest Airline: EuropeLufthansaBest Airline: India/Central AsiaKingfisher AirlinesBest Airline: Middle EastQatar AirwaysBest Airline: North AmericaAir CanadaBest Airline: South East AsiaSingapore AirlinesBest Airline Lounge - Business ClassVirgin AtlanticBest Airline Lounge - First ClassThai AirwaysBest Airline Seat - Business ClassSingapore AirlinesBest Airline Seat - Economy ClassKingfisher AirlinesBest Airline Seat - First ClassEtihad AirwaysBest Airline Seat - Premium Economy ClassQantas AirwaysBest Low-Cost Airline Australia/PacificVirgin BlueBest Onboard Catering - Business ClassQatar AirwaysBest Onboard Catering - Economy ClassTurkish AirlinesBest Onboard Catering - First ClassEtihad

Yes 8th and 9th. but I will not change. The informality of Thai is more pleasurable than the efficiency of SG (2). IMOThe timekeeping and staff of Emirates make it my Fav.Never flown Asiana and unlikely 2... may be targeted By their Northern Brothers???UK Tom