Singapore’s Changi airport was voted as the world’s best airport, once again, for the seventh consecutive year. Skytrax chose the airport as the best in the world in its annual World Airport Awards for the seventh year in a row. The airport has earn the distinguished position being highlighted with a unique butterfly garden, movie theatre, and world-class swimming pool. The ranking was being decided by travelers voting in a global customer satisfaction survey.
Among all its attractions, recently the airport has added its new captivation of 10-story Jewel. This will allow travelers to ramble a waterfall, do some shopping or relax in an indoor forest between their flights.The Skytrax award came just a couple weeks after these things are introduced.
Addressing a ceremony in London this week, CEO of Skytrax, Edward Plaisted said, “ This in fact is a fabulous achievement for Changi Airport, to be voted as the World’s Best Airport for the seventh consecutive year. Again this award continues to underline the airport’s popularity with international air travelers.”
However, this time, Asian airports, overally dominated the ranking. Tokyo’s Haneda, won the second place gaining one spot since last year’s awards. Seoul’s Incheon airport, Doha’s Hamad international airport and Hong Kong airport were among the runners up.
Even though Singapore’s Changi won the best airport award, it does not have the best terminal and that particular honor was bagged by London’s Heathrow, specifically its Terminal 5. Heathrow’s Terminal 2 took fourth place. Apart from that Tokyo’s Haneda was awarded for world’s cleanest airport and the country’s Narita airport had the world’s best staffs.
In this ranking system, however, the airports of the U.S. did not do too well. The highest-placing U.S. airport was at the 36th place in the world, i.e. Atlanta’s Hartsfield-
