He Changi airport from Singapore was named the best in the world in World Airport Awards 2023 (World Airport Awards) by winning the title, which he has already held twelve times and which he lost during the pandemic, in favor of Tokyo and Doha airfields.
He Hamad airport Doha this time fell to second place, and the one from Hanedaranks third in Tokyo; Incheon (Seoul) and Charles de Gaulle (Paris) airfields crown the list of the top five awards, determined by the British auditing company Skytrax and presented at a ceremony in Amsterdam the day before.
In a statement released on its website, Skytrax director Edward Plaisted highlights the return of the Singapore airport after its paralysis in the early years of the pandemic, when the city-state was virtually closed to the world to stave off contagion, until which it began reopening in 2022.
“After being hit hard during the COVID-19 pandemic, the good news is that passenger numbers at Changi Airport are at 80 percent of pre-pandemic levels, and we expect them to fully recover by 2024,” Plaisted said.
In the same statement, Singapore Airport Director Mr. Lee Seo Hyangemphasizes that the award “is a great boost to our community, which has stood firm in the battle against COVID-19 over the past two years. We are deeply grateful to our passengers for your trust.”
Singapore Airport has also been named the best in Asia, the best in the world for the number of places to stay and the best in the world for restaurants. Likewise Crowne Place, in changiFor the eighth year in a row, it has been recognized as the best hotel located at the airport.
The winners received the best score in a global travel survey conducted by Skytrax between August 2022 and February 2023, which included questions about their experience of various aspects of travel such as arrivals, shopping, security, security checks, immigration, and access to boarding gates.
The best in the world
changiwhich for eight consecutive years (2013-2020) set the record for winning the award as the best airport in the world, which is unprecedented since the start of the awards in 2000, was replaced by the international airport of Omsk. Doha in 2022 and Haneda (Tokyo) in 2021.
Haneda also once again received the award for the world’s cleanest airport, among other awards.
He Baraja airportin Madrid, is ranked tenth in the list of the best in the world in 2023, while Colombian Eldorado, in Bogotá, was voted the best airport in Latin America. (EFE)
Source: RPP
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