Hong Kong airport named best in world for fifth year

General Sources Thursday 17th February, 2011

Airports Council International named Hong Kong International Airport on Wednesday the world?s No.1 among airports serving more than 40 million passengers annually.2010 was the fifth consecutive year that the Hong Kong airport has received this honor. In the annual Airport Service Quality survey, conducted by Skytrax, a U.K.-based consultancy firm, it was rated as excellent or very good by 99 percent of the survey respondents, achieving a record high of 4.78 out of 5.00. Passengers favor the Hong Kong airport mainly due to its availability and cleanliness of the lavatories, the comfortableness of the waiting areas, the ambience, the security and the customs inspection.Participants in this survey, who came from 140 airports, were asked to rate airports on a variety of measures, such as gener...

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