AirlineRatings.com, the world’s only safety and product rating website, has announced the selection of Air New Zealand as its Airline of the Year for 2015.
Air New Zealand is being honoured for the second consecutive year for its award winning in-flight innovations, record financial performance, operational safety and motivation of its staff that have stamped the airline an industry trendsetter.
Airlineratings.com Editor-in-Chief Geoffrey Thomas said that Air New Zealand won the award quite convincingly.
“Quite simply Air New Zealand is an airline of first choice. And given the airline’s location and the country’s size its performance is even more remarkable.”
Air New Zealand chief executive officer Christopher Luxon, said the airline is thrilled to receive the prestigious accolade two years in a row.
“It’s been an incredibly exciting year for Air New Zealand and this award recognises the outstanding efforts of our 11,000 employees globally. We head into our 75th anniversary year well positioned to continue sustainably growing Air New Zealand,” Mr Luxon said.
Other winners in the Airline Excellence Awards are: Etihad, Emirates, Qantas, Scoot, EVA Air, Cathay Pacific, Lufthansa, JetBlue, Norwegian, Thai International, Bangkok Airways, Lan Chile, Virgin Australia and Kulula.com
Rounding out the top ten airlines according to AirlineRatings.com were Air New Zealand followed by Etihad, Cathay Pacific, Qantas, Emirates, Singapore Airlines, EVA Air, Lufthansa, All Nippon Airways and British Airways
