SAA – Africa’s Best Airline
September 2, 2008
South African Airways has been awarded with the “Best Airline in Africa” and “Best Cabin Crew in Africa” prizes at the World Airline Awards.
The awards based on the yearly World Airline Survey conducted by Skytrax measures over 35 different aspects of passenger satisfaction for an airline’s product and service standards, and is recognized as being a global, independent survey that handle over 15 million passengers’ feedback regarding airline standards.
SAA’s recent upgrade of the A340-300 and -600 aircraft contributed to its success at the awards. SAA now offers 29 extra titles on its in-flight movies list, ranging from popcorn blockbusters to culturally diverse options including South African and Hindi choices.
The upgraded aircraft operate SAA’s service form Washington and New York to Johannesburg and each seat on board includes a personal, on-demand entertainment system with the full range of upgraded content, as well as good quality food, complementary South African wine and amenity kits.
SAA offers the only non-stop service form the U.S. to South Africa with daily departures form Washington D.C and New York.
“Travellers in premium class enjoy 180 degree fully flat-bed seats, and in economy class enjoy the most legroom versus competitors.” SAA said in a statement earlier this week.
SAA also received the “Best Airline to Africa” award by Executive Travel Magazine and Weekly Globe Awards.
“We continue to be honoured by the fact that our customers and industry colleagues are recognizing our efforts to offer the best service to Africa,” said Marc Cavaliere, Executive Vice President, North America for South African Airways. “One can’t go wrong by working tirelessly to improve one’s service and offerings, and we continue to work to that end.”
Source: www.modernoptimist.co.za