Hong Kong — world’s best airport for 2008
Hong Kong International Airport has again been named the World’s Best Airport. It won the award last year and won for the seventh time in 10 years.
Edward Plaisted, CEO of Skytrax Research, who conducted the survey, noted that “Hong Kong was particularly notable for gaining highest satisfaction ratings in such a diverse market.”
Munich was named best European airport and San Francisco was named best airport in North America. Tel Aviv was named best Middle Eastern airport and Cape Town was named best airport in Africa.
The top 10 worldwide best are as follows:
1. Hong Kong
2. Singapore Changi
3. Seoul Incheon
4. Kuala Lumpur KLIA
5. Munich
6. Kansai
7. Copenhagen
8. Zurich
9. Helsinki
10. Cape Town
Skytrax surveyed passengers worldwide in 39 categories related to product and service qualities ranging from check-in to airport amenities.
Earlier we posted the listing of the 15 most on-time airports in the USA and the Most miserable airports in America.
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SFO is my home airport, but I hardly think it is the best in North America. I will give them credit for lots of upgrades to the food options and for reconfiguring some of the security checkpoints to work better, but we are still waiting fixes for losing runway space during fog or heavy cloud cover.
I guess I should give my picks.
I would pick DFW for large airports. The newish AirTrain makes it much easier to get around for connections, the new terminal D is a big improvement over the older terminals and the numerous counters and security checkpoint entrances mean the lines are usually manageable.
I would pick SNA (Orange County) for my favorite smaller airport. Easy in and out. Rental cars right across the way. Sometimes you can be airborne 5 minutes after the door closes because the gates and normal departure runway are so close. They are also finally upgrading the food options a bit.