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Travellers around the world have continued to give Singapore Changi Airport their stamp of approval, with Changi picking up three Best Airport awards in the first quarter of 2010.
The awards include Top Worldwide Airport by Wanderlust and Best Airport in Asia Pacific by DestinAsian, which were received last month. The latest, announced yesterday night in Brussels, Belgium, is the World’s Best Airport award at the 2010 Skytrax World Airport Awards. Changi also picked up the Skytrax award for Best Leisure Amenities. Changi Airport has won the awards by Wanderlust and DestinAsian eight and five times respectively, and consecutively in the latter case. The World’s Best Airport award by Skytrax is Changi’s third. Since its opening in 1981, Changi Airport has won more than 340 airport awards.
Changi Airport Group’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr Lee Seow Hiang, expressed appreciation to Changi Airport’s many stakeholders for their support. He said, “Changi’s success would not be possible without the affirmation, encouragement and feedback that we have received from our stakeholders, including the millions of passengers and visitors we serve every year. This has motivated us to continue to improve and innovate. We are honoured to receive these awards and thank everyone for their vote of confidence.” Mr Lee added, “In an ever-competitive operating landscape, these awards are also a testament to the hard work and tireless efforts of all airport staff and partners in the Changi community to deliver the Changi Experience. I want to thank them too for their contributions.”
Mr Edward Plaisted, Chairman of Skytrax, said, “This is the largest ever Skytrax airport survey with 9.8 million travellers from over 100 nationalities taking part, and underlines the unrivalled, global coverage of this study. Taking pride of place in being named World’s Best Airport for 2010 is Singapore Changi Airport. Changi has always been one of the world’s best performing airports during the 10 years of the World Airport Survey, and I congratulate them on achieving this No 1 position in 2010… in what was an extremely competitive survey environment. The Skytrax survey is based upon customer’s airport experiences, although I prefer to see it more as traveller’s enjoyment of time spent at an airport – because this is where Changi Airport garnered so much support from travellers across the globe, making Changi Airport almost a destination in its own right!”
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