| A statement by THY said on Friday that according to survey by Skytrax, THY ranked the second in the world's best economy class catering. Thai Airways was named winner and Asiana Airlines took the third position.
Voted by over 18.8 million airline passengers from 100 different nationalities, the World Airline Awards are the most prestigious and respected quality recognition of front-line product and service standards across the world airline industry. With 200 airlines featured, the awards reflect customer satisfaction levels across 38 different items of airline front-line product and service.
Skytrax is a world recognised brand associated with air travel excellence in the 21st century, providing unique expertise to the world airline and airport industry through the most professional Audit and Service Benchmarking programmes of Product and Service Quality.
Turkish Airlines began 78 years ago with 5 airplanes and today has 169 (passenger and cargo) airplanes. It operates scheduled services to 139 international and 42 domestic cities (38 domestic airports), serving a total of 181 airports, in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. The airline's main base is at Atatürk International Airport. Starting from April 1st, 2008, THY became one of the members of the world's largest airline alliance, namely, Star Alliance and committed to be Turkey's rising star. |
