Wednesday 15 April 2015

Qatar Airways named the world's most reliable airline for punctuality and its modern fleet... while BA falls behind Gulf and Asian carriers



 Qatar Airways has been named the most reliable airline in the world, thanks to flight punctuality, its modern fleet and the minimal extra fees it charges.
  And not only did the airline come out on top, it scored a perfect 100 in the research by travel site WanderBat, which ranked the top 22 airlines around the world.
 Followed closely by Emirates and China Eastern, the top three airlines showed how the Gulf and Asia are dominating the travel market.
 In turn, British Airways ranked in eighth place as the only UK airline to make the list. America fared even worse, with one airline making it into 17th place - SouthWest Airlines.
 WanderBat, has looked at several different factors in order to form a Smart Rating and rank the top international airlines.
  Looking at on-time performance, checked baggage cost (the number of bags you get to check for free, as well as the cost of checking additional bags) and the average age of the fleet. If any two airlines tied, they were then ranked according to their percentage of on-time flights.
 While British Airways only took eighth place, it still boasted a score of 91, coming behind Singapore Airlines, China Southern, Ethiopian and Air China.
 The top 10 was rounded out with Saudia, Cathay Pacific and Latin American airline Lan.
BA was the only European airline to make it into the list, except for Air Berlin, which took 22nd place.
 Despite its problems last year with the downing of flight MH17 and the disappearance of flight MH370, Malaysia Airlines took 16th place in the table, just behind Etihad and beating SouthWest Airlines.

Source
Daily Mail UK








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