Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the World Airline Awards, SKYTRAX announce that awards ceremony to be held in Hamburg, at the Aircraft Interiors EXPO

The 2009 World Airline Awards will be presented on Wednesday 1st April 2009, at an Awards ceremony to held at Aircraft Interiors EXPO in Hamburg.

"This is a great occasion for us to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the World Airline Awards with this new awards ceremony" said Edward Plaisted, CEO of Skytrax. "Since establishing the survey back in 1999, we have maintained very strict guidelines for the modus-operandi of the project - striving to not only garner a truly worldwide audience, but to operate a survey that is totally independent, with very transparent methodology. Our views about some airline surveys are well-known, largely based upon the premise that many can be charged with being self-serving, or often too restrictive in their outlook."

"The collaboration with Aircraft Interiors EXPO in Hamburg enables Skytrax to host the World Airline Awards at a venue which is the global market leader for the world’s aircraft interiors industry, and with clear synergies between the two events," added Plaisted. "It provides the platform to publicly honour the winning airlines, whilst at the same time delivering an Awards ceremony that is not sponsored or influenced by an third party - that concept remains of paramount importance to us."

The respect and recognition that the World Airline Awards achieve across the globe is well documented by the media, and well summed up by the Australian newspaper, The Age, who commented ...."Skytrax awards are highly prized in the travel industry. With awards, it seems, importance depends very much on who's handing them out."


  The World Airline Awards

Invitations to attend the World Airline Awards ceremony will be sent out in February 2009. To guarantee your attendance at the Awards (airline industry & media), please contact :


Mr Peter Miller
Director Marketing - SKYTRAX
Email :  miller@airlinequality.com