Freitag, Juni 02, 2006
AIRPORT OF THE YEAR : 2006Singapore Changi Airport is named as the winner of the prestigious "Airport of the Year" title for 2006
After a 5 year period of securing the runners-up Silver Award position in this global study, Singapore Changi takes the top position in what Skytrax described as a "very closely fought contest".
The Top 10 Airports in the world for 2006 :
1 Singapore Changi Airport Gold Award
2 Hong Kong Int'l Airport Silver Award
3 Munich Airport Bronze Award
4 Kansai International Airport
5 Seoul Incheon Airport
6 KLIA - Kuala Lumpur Airport
7 Helsinki Vantaa Airport
8 Zurich Airport
9 Dubai International Airport
10 Copenhagen Airport
Commenting on the results, Mr Edward Plaisted (Skytrax CEO) said
... "after another record-breaking level of customer response to this passenger survey, we have over recent months closely monitored the jostling for the winners accolade. This went down to the wire, with Singapore Changi securing top position in the final month of the survey. The total responses for this 2006 study grew by 1.7 million over year-earlier levels, with more than 7.2 million air travellers casting their votes in this survey, making it the world's largest assessment of airport standards".
"Particular praise for the Singapore Changi title as World's Best Airport 2006 is underlined by the fact this is an airport celebrating its 25 year Silver Jubilee in July - and subsequently having to achieve product and service standards that match and exceed competitor airports, many of which are just 5 or 6 years old".
"Hong Kong International Airport remained the key title challenger throughout the survey, and with a final voting differential of less than 1,000 nominations between these two airports, one realises the high levels of customer satisfaction that both of these leading global airports enjoy. Airports making it into the Top 10 league of world airports is very similar to last year's results, although there has been a marked movement within this particular grouping.
Munich Airport continues to garner considerable favour amongst passengers, ranked 3rd 2006, with Kansai in 4th pushing Seoul Incheon Airport into 5th place this year. Reading through many of the interview comments, there is a clear trend that facilities and service within the airport environment remain paramount to overall satisfaction levels, but ground transportation facilities have increased in terms of importance - this a factor behind Seoul Incheon slipping slightly in the results".
