After thoroughly researching your cheap traveloptions, including cheapairplane tickets, discount hotel rooms, and cheap vacation packages,depending on your destination, you should keep in mind the highest rankedairlines in the world when deciding which airline will provide the bestexperience especially since most airlines tend to be competitively priced whenflying the same routes.
Most frequent fliers are all too familiar dealing with longdelays and cramped seats. The airlineyou fly with can make a huge difference.
Recently AirHelp evaluated 78 airlines around the world torank the industrys best airlines. AirHelp is a flight delays compensation company which used three keycriteria in rating airlines:
- Quality performance, based on data from airline review site Skytrax.com evaluating the airline product, as well as a rating of the airline experience both onboard and at airports.
- Delay time, which considered how many flights arrived on time.
- Claim processing, which looked at the airlines' number of wrongfully rejected compensation claims per quarter, and the amount of time it takes airlines to respond to, handle, and pay out a claim.
Each airline was given a rating that maxed out at 10in the above areas, with the average of these three ratings determiningAirHelps final overall score.
QatarAirways came in number one, followed by Air Dolomiti from Italy, and AustrianAirlines.
The following were the 10 highest rated airlines in theworld and their respective ratings:
1. Qatar Airways - 8.7
2. AirDolomiti - 8.5
3. AustrianAirlines - 8.5
4. SingaporeAirlines - 8.4
5. KLM- 8.3
6. VirginAtlantic - 8.2
7. AirBaltic - 8.1
8. CathayPacific - 8.1
9. AirCanada - 8.1
10. Finnair 8
Thefollowing are the worlds 10 worst airlines, followed by each airlines countryand AirHelp score:
- Norwegian Air Shuttle Norway: 7.1
- Icelandair Iceland: 7
- Alitalia Italy: 7
- Iberia Spain: 7
- Aer Lingus Ireland: 6.8
- TAP Portugal Portugal: 6.8
- Swiss International Air Lines Switzerland: 6.4
- Virgin Atlantic Airways United Kingdom: 6.2
- EasyJet United Kingdom: 5.8
- Sata International Portugal: 5.2
AirHelps CEO observed As passengers worldwide seecustomer service being diminished by many major airlines, they instead arebeing driven to choose carriers that offer more than just a seat from A to B.
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