Best airport in the world named
Cape Town is ranked the highest in Africa in 22nd spot.
Singapore Airlines confirmed that a customer had found what seemed to be “a foreign object in their meal”. AFP/File/GREG BAKER
Singapore’s Changi international airport has been named the best in the world for the seventh straight year.
Travellers voting on a global customer satisfaction survey for Skytrax have named the airport the world’s best for its butterfly garden, movie theatre and swimming pool, among other numerous attractions.
The Skytrax award comes just a couple weeks before the airport opens its new 10-story attraction, Jewel, which will allow travellers to hike past a waterfall, do some shopping or relax in an indoor forest between flights.
“To be voted the World’s Best Airport for the seventh consecutive year is a truly fabulous achievement for Changi Airport, and this award continues to underline the airport’s popularity with international air travellers,” Edward Plaisted, CEO of Skytrax, said in London last week.
Cape Town International is the highest-ranked African airport, coming in at 22 in the world. WhileDurban is at 29 and Johannesburg at 33. The next highest on the continent is Mauritius at 94.
The full top 1o for 2019 is:
- Singapore Changi Airport
- Tokyo Haneda International Airport
- Incheon International Airport
- Hamad International Airport
- Hong Kong International Airport
- Chubu Centrair International Airport
- Munich Airport
- London Heathrow Airport
- Narita International Airport
- Zurich Airport
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