{"id":250161,"date":"2018-06-07T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T09:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=250161"},"modified":"2018-06-07T11:57:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T09:57:00","slug":"the-10-best-airlines-in-the-world-including-one-from-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/250161\/the-10-best-airlines-in-the-world-including-one-from-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10 best airlines in the world – including one from South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Travel website, AirHelp, has released its latest airline rankings for 2018.<\/p>\n

Now in its sixth year, the rankings are based on an AirHelp<\/a> <\/strong>Score (out of 10) which compares each airline with three different criteria to inform you how they perform against their competition.<\/p>\n

These include the airline’s on-time performance, its quality of service and its claims processing, based on thousands of data points and reviews from around the world.<\/p>\n

Based on these criteria, Qatar Airways was named as the best airline in the world with a score of (9.08), followed by Germany’s Lufthansa (8.57) and the UAE’s Ethihad Airways (8.43).<\/p>\n

South African Airways (SAA) was also named as one of the top ten airlines in the world (5th – 8.31), scoring relatively highly for its claims processing and on-time performance.<\/p>\n

This is likely to be good news for the struggling airline, with Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan recently announcing that he would be merging SAA, SA Express and Mango as a way to rationalise their routes and help cut down on costs.<\/p>\n

Other notable inclusions in the top ten include Singpaore Airlines (4th – 8.33), Qantas (8th – 8.12), and Virgin Atlantic (8.04).<\/p>\n

You can find the full top 10 and their respective scores detailed below:<\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Ranking<\/th>\nAirline<\/th>\nLocation<\/th>\nOn-time performance<\/th>\nQuality of Service<\/th>\nClaims processing<\/th>\nScore<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nQatar Airways<\/td>\nQatar<\/td>\n8.9<\/td>\n9.5<\/td>\n8.9<\/td>\n9.08<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nLufthansa<\/td>\nGermany<\/td>\n7.6<\/td>\n9.5<\/td>\n8.6<\/td>\n8.57<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nEtihad Airways<\/td>\nUAE<\/td>\n8.6<\/td>\n9.3<\/td>\n7.5<\/td>\n8.43<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nSingapore Airlines<\/td>\nSingapore<\/td>\n8.5<\/td>\n9.8<\/td>\n6.8<\/td>\n8.33<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nSouth African Airways<\/td>\nSouth Africa<\/td>\n8.5<\/td>\n7.8<\/td>\n8.7<\/td>\n8.31<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nAustrian Airlines<\/td>\nAustria<\/td>\n8.0<\/td>\n8.0<\/td>\n8.9<\/td>\n8.29<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nAegean Airlines<\/td>\nGreece<\/td>\n9.0<\/td>\n8.3<\/td>\n7.4<\/td>\n8.19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nQantas<\/td>\nAustralia<\/td>\n8.9<\/td>\n8.0<\/td>\n7.5<\/td>\n8.12<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nAir Malta<\/td>\nMalta<\/td>\n8.6<\/td>\n6.5<\/td>\n9.1<\/td>\n8.09<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nVirgin Atlantic<\/td>\nUnited Kingdom<\/td>\n8.2<\/td>\n8.0<\/td>\n7.9<\/td>\n8.04<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Read: SAA, SA Express and Mango to be merged<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prestigious travel website, Airhelp, has released its latest airline rankings for 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":247271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9876],"tags":[13143,26],"class_list":["post-250161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-airhelp","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250161"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250231,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250161\/revisions\/250231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}