Best airline accolade from leisure travellers to emirates
PRAISE: Business and luxury leisure travellers gave Emirates
top honours in the annual Global Traveller's GT Tested Awards for 2006,
naming the world's fastest growing international airline "Best Airline
for First Class" for the second year in a row.
Global Traveller's annual GT Tested Awards is one of the world's most
comprehensive business and leisure
Award: Emirates Senior Vice President of Commercial Operations, the
Americas Nigel Page (Centre) accepts the prestigious Global
Traveller Award for “Best Airline for First Class” at the ceremony
in New York, joined by television actress Cynthia Nixon (left) and
Francis Gallagher (right), Publisher and CEO, Global Traveller
magazine.
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traveller polls, showcasing the best
and brightest in airlines, hotels, destinations and travel service
providers, as voted by magazine readers.
Emirates was also recently named "Best First Class in the World" and
"Best Business Class to the Middle East" by Business Traveller readers
in the 2006 Readers' Choice Best in Business Travel Awards as well as
"Best Airline for Flights to the Middle East" from Executive Travel
magazine's 2006 Leading Edge Awards readers' survey.
"Emirates is honoured to accept these awards and to be recognised by
these prestigious publications, whose readers are strong opinion leaders
within the travel industry," said Emirates Senior Vice President Nigel
Page.
The Americas "With the recent launch of the new generation of
lie-flat Business Class seats aboard our Boeing 777's, we remain
committed to providing outstanding in-flight experiences to all our
passengers. Customer service has always played an important role in the
growth of the airline, and these awards serve as significant validation
from the discerning first and business travelling community," Page said.
Emirates introduced the lie-flat massage seats only in Business Class
on Flight EK204, the airline's non-stop Boeing 777-300ER service between
New York and Dubai on October 1. In 2004, when Emirates launched
passenger service from North America, it drew international attention
and praise for its fully-enclosed First Class suites. |