3 Best Business Class Airlines are Among Worlds Leading Carriers

3 Best Business Class Airlines are Among World’s Leading Carriers 3 Best Business Class Airlines are Among World’s Leading Carriers Image: iStockRAY  Floyd, the retired US golfer and member of the World Golf Hall of Fame, has a reflection on first class travelâ€"“If you travel first class, you think first class, and you are more likely to play first class”â€"that resonates with those who regard travelling with the best business class airlines as crucial to get ‘into the zone’ for the task to be completed, goal to be achieved, or contract to be won.For others, travelling with the best business class airlines, or first class, helps to assure that frequent business travelling can be completed more efficiently and in more comfort than travelling in economy would provide.A scene from the classic 1987 film  Planes, Trains Automobiles parodies what happens when a seasoned business class traveller is suddenly denied a seat. Here, Steve Martin’s marketing executive, Neal Page, is bumped to coach, where he is seated next to chatterbox shower-curtain ring salesman, Del Griffith, whom he has been trying to avoid.A ll of this is to say that business class air travel remains a big concern in any era, whether in Ray Floyd’s heyday; during the 1980s as characterised in Planes, Trains Automobiles; or in its depiction in more recent times.In 2015, Hollywood actress Jennifer Aniston reportedly received a fee of $5m for starring in an Emirates airline advert.That was an ironic take on business class. But the seriousness with which premium class travel  is taken in the aviation industry, and among passengers who use it, is evident in the Skytrax World Airline Awards, which will be taking place once again in June. There is as keen a sense of competition for these awards among the best business class airlines as there has been in any year since the event’s inception in 1999.The awards are among the world’s most coveted air travel accolades, with  the business class categories among the most hotly contested. At the 2015 ceremony in Paris, Singapore Airlines was awarded the World’s Best Business Class Airline.The eastern carrier took the business class honour despite being ousted from the overall Airline of the Year slot that it won in 2014, by the Gulf-based Qatar Airways.Skytrax’s awardsâ€"sometimes referred to as the “Oscars of the service world”â€"are determined by the views of some 18.9m passengers from 110 countries, amounting to the globe’s largest airline passenger satisfaction survey.Qatar also took home the top prize for Best Business Class Seat, while Turkish Airlines, the fast-growing national carrier of Turkeyâ€"and a five-time winner of the Best Airline in Europe Skytrax awardâ€"was named as the provider of the world’s Best Business Class Airline Lounge.Skytrax, UK-based specialist research advisors to the air transport industry, established the awards in 1999, as a global honours system for the airline industry.Now in their 19th year, the awards are seen as a world benchmark for airline excellence, a most coveted and prestigious laurel, particularly when attracting discerning business class clients.To say the awards are taken seriously is an understatement. It is no coincidence that the three airlines which scooped the business class awardsâ€"Qatar, Singapore and Turkishâ€"also took first, second and fourth place respectively in contending for the coveted overall Airline of the Year prize last year.Qatar Airways, Singapore Airlines and Turkish Airlines are among the most-starred carriers on Skytrax’s ongoing passenger-driven global airline excellence star-rating system, which classifies airlines by the quality of their front-line product and staff service standards.The level of competition for the awards is evident in the personal attendance of airline chiefs at the annual awards ceremony, which annually alternates between the Paris Airshow and the Farnborough International Airshow.Recognised worldwide for their transparency and reliability, there is no membership criteria, no subscription for inclusion, nor any change to at tend the awards ceremonyâ€"just the views of almost 19m passengers worldwide. 3 Best Business Class Airlines are Among World’s Leading Carriers 3 Best Business Class Airlines are Among World’s Leading Carriers Image: iStockRAY  Floyd, the retired US golfer and member of the World Golf Hall of Fame, has a reflection on first class travelâ€"“If you travel first class, you think first class, and you are more likely to play first class”â€"that resonates with those who regard travelling with the best business class airlines as crucial to get ‘into the zone’ for the task to be completed, goal to be achieved, or contract to be won.For others, travelling with the best business class airlines, or first class, helps to assure that frequent business travelling can be completed more efficiently and in more comfort than travelling in economy would provide.A scene from the classic 1987 film  Planes, Trains Automobiles parodies what happens when a seasoned business class traveller is suddenly denied a seat. Here, Steve Martin’s marketing executive, Neal Page, is bumped to coach, where he is seated next to chatterbox shower-curtain ring salesman, Del Griffith, whom he has been trying to avoid.A ll of this is to say that business class air travel remains a big concern in any era, whether in Ray Floyd’s heyday; during the 1980s as characterised in Planes, Trains Automobiles; or in its depiction in more recent times.In 2015, Hollywood actress Jennifer Aniston reportedly received a fee of $5m for starring in an Emirates airline advert.That was an ironic take on business class. But the seriousness with which premium class travel  is taken in the aviation industry, and among passengers who use it, is evident in the Skytrax World Airline Awards, which will be taking place once again in June. There is as keen a sense of competition for these awards among the best business class airlines as there has been in any year since the event’s inception in 1999.The awards are among the world’s most coveted air travel accolades, with  the business class categories among the most hotly contested. At the 2015 ceremony in Paris, Singapore Airlines was awarded the World’s Best Business Class Airline.The eastern carrier took the business class honour despite being ousted from the overall Airline of the Year slot that it won in 2014, by the Gulf-based Qatar Airways.Skytrax’s awardsâ€"sometimes referred to as the “Oscars of the service world”â€"are determined by the views of some 18.9m passengers from 110 countries, amounting to the globe’s largest airline passenger satisfaction survey.Qatar also took home the top prize for Best Business Class Seat, while Turkish Airlines, the fast-growing national carrier of Turkeyâ€"and a five-time winner of the Best Airline in Europe Skytrax awardâ€"was named as the provider of the world’s Best Business Class Airline Lounge.Skytrax, UK-based specialist research advisors to the air transport industry, established the awards in 1999, as a global honours system for the airline industry.Now in their 19th year, the awards are seen as a world benchmark for airline excellence, a most coveted and prestigious laurel, particularly when attracting discerning business class clients.To say the awards are taken seriously is an understatement. It is no coincidence that the three airlines which scooped the business class awardsâ€"Qatar, Singapore and Turkishâ€"also took first, second and fourth place respectively in contending for the coveted overall Airline of the Year prize last year.Qatar Airways, Singapore Airlines and Turkish Airlines are among the most-starred carriers on Skytrax’s ongoing passenger-driven global airline excellence star-rating system, which classifies airlines by the quality of their front-line product and staff service standards.The level of competition for the awards is evident in the personal attendance of airline chiefs at the annual awards ceremony, which annually alternates between the Paris Airshow and the Farnborough International Airshow.Recognised worldwide for their transparency and reliability, there is no membership criteria, no subscription for inclusion, nor any change to at tend the awards ceremonyâ€"just the views of almost 19m passengers worldwide.