{"id":1854,"date":"2009-11-26T10:07:03","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T08:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=1854"},"modified":"2024-03-11T14:07:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T14:07:05","slug":"singapore-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/singapore-airlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore Airlines flies high again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Passengers and travel agents have voted Singapore Airlines this year&#8217;s best international carrier in a Zagat survey that also showed how the economic downturn had grounded the travel industry.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/singapore-airlines.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1855\" title=\"Singapore Airlines\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/singapore-airlines-280x220.jpg\" alt=\"Singapore Airlines\" width=\"280\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a>The 2009 Airline Survey by the travel and entertainment guide covered 73 international airlines and 16 domestic U.S. carriers, rating premium and economy classes on a 30-point scale covering factors such as comfort, food, in-flight entertainment and luggage policies.<\/p>\n<p>Singapore Airlines, the flag carrier of the Southeast Asian nation and which regularly wins passenger choice awards, scored top marks for its service in both classes.<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong&#8217;s Cathay Pacific tied with Dubai&#8217;s Emirates airline for the 2nd slot in the premium-class category while Emirates also scored second-best for its economy class service.<\/p>\n<p>Virgin Atlantic and Air New Zealand were voted as having the third best premium class service and there was a three-way tie for the third ranking in economy class between Japan&#8217;s All Nippon Airways, Air New Zealand and Thai Airways.<\/p>\n<p>Among the U.S. airlines, Continental got the best score which Tim Zagat, CEO of Zagat Survey, said was an achievement despite lagging behind the others.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The newer airlines continue to do well in the survey. Being less expensive to operate, they can therefore afford to provide better service,&#8221; Zagat said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That airlines like Singapore, Emirates and Cathay Pacific do so well is a no-brainer &#8211; government support. The big question is how Continental does so well without any special advantages.&#8221;<\/p>\n<!-- Either there are no banners, they are disabled or none qualified for this location! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passengers and travel agents have voted Singapore Airlines this year&#8217;s best international carrier in a Zagat survey that also showed how the economic downturn had grounded the travel industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7997,137,8181],"tags":[8185],"class_list":["post-1854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-far-east","category-sectoral","category-luxury-travel-agents","tag-travel-agent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9324,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions\/9324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}