Hong Kong International Airport has been voted the world's best airport for the seventh year in an annual survey of passengers, it was announced today.
The annual survey, conducted by UK consultancy Skytrax, judges airports on more than 40 categories.
The airports are ranked according to answers collected from 8.2m questionnaires completed by passengers over a 10-month time period from 2007 to 2008.
Airports were judged on factors like shopping, dining, staff courtesy, baggage delivery and wait-times at security.
Overall airports on the Asian continent fared the best. Singapore’s Changi Airport and Seoul’s Incheon Airport in South Korea were second and third respectively.
Munich in Germany was voted the top European airport, ranked fifth in the world, while Copenhagen in Denmark, Zurich, Switzerland, and Helsinki, Finland also made the top ten.
Cape Town International Airport in South Africa came in at Number 10.
By staff writer
