Airline of the year results now posted!

The 2002/2003 ERA Airline of the year is Air Nostrum.
The Silver award went to Widerøe.
And the Bronze award went to Air Dolomiti.

Source: www.eraa.org

Well I never see the Fokker 50 much no more when it used to be a real common one over here. I guess Channel Express operate the Fokker 27 here.
On another subject, who currently is the ERA airline of the year?

will probably goto HK or Changi .

It’ll be interesting to see who gets Airport of the Year, you can bet your life Heathrow wont get in the frame.

From my own experience Amsterdam and Dussldorf would get my vote for European Airport.

Dave

not too rare SAAB – remember KLMUK fly to most regional airports with either FK50 or F100, and VLM have quite a large presence at UK fields esp LCY and MAN plus a lot of regionals – tbf though the EI FK50s were prob the most often see of the type before retirement

IKBrunel,
When did you travel VLM? From a spotters point of view they are one of my favourite airlines considering it is rare to see a Fokker 50 in the UK nowadays.
I think Comet was also flying VLM to Antwerp a while back?

Quote from the site…

“Passenger voting also made for a fascinating final 6 weeks to this year’s Survey”

Oh good. I had assumed that they just relied on passengers reviews.

Originally posted by T5
Is like all these men’s magazines where you vote for the world’s sexiest woman based on the results from a UK survey with it not counting for much?

Who exactly decides which airline is put which position? Is it an international decision?

They get there committee members on flights on airlines and they submit reviews, general public opinion is also taken seriosuly, profits, management, crew training, ground handling etc etc. count. Its not a small procedure.

Is like all these men’s magazines where you vote for the world’s sexiest woman based on the results from a UK survey with it not counting for much?

Who exactly decides which airline is put which position? Is it an international decision?

sigh…I remember that day when Manx Airlines won the ERA award, before BA came along.

VLM usually do well in the ERA (European Regional Airline) Awards – they aren’t elagable for this type of catagory

I think VLM should receive an award – super service, quick check-in, clean aircraft, fast turnarounds. They are a very good small airline, and they make a good profit.

Emirates was winning it for past 3 years!

The only reason I mentioed the lack of a PTV was that QF do usually have them, apparently. I just happened to get one which didn’t.

AF deserves to get bashed. I’m actually appalled that Singapore is only 3rd on that list, how dare they! I’ve not flown Emirates or Cathay and although I have heard nice things about both of them, especially Emirates, Singapore rules. I have flown them, and they are incredible in every facet. As far as PTV’s go, Mongu, there are several airlines that have PTV’s in their 744’s, most of which are in Asia. There are still lots of major airlines, however, that don’t have PTV’s in their 744’s like QANTAS, as mentioned, and ANZ, United, Lufthansa, Northwest, to name a few. United was going to retrofit their 744’s, but I’m sure that will be postponed till much later, in lieu of their current economic situation.

I only flew them a few times, but I can’t fault them. No PTVs on the 744 I flew on, but I also flew on a couple of their 717’s and they were nice flights. No problems anywhere.

quite surprised to see QANTAS so high up (note no U in QANTAS!) – They always seem to b getting earache on domestic runs!

LOL! Poor old AF… there getting a right bashing off us guys as of late. :p

Why am I not surprised that AF is absent 😉