{"id":12563,"date":"2011-06-24T11:36:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T08:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=12563"},"modified":"2011-06-24T11:36:34","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T08:36:34","slug":"turkish-airlines-wins-best-airline-europe-award-2011-12563","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/turkish-airlines-wins-best-airline-europe-award-2011-12563\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish Airlines wins Best Airline Europe award 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 26px;font-weight: bold\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12566\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12566\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12566\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Turkish_airlines_best_airlines_award_nationalturk_1234.jpg\" alt=\"Turkish Airlines wins Best Airline Europe award 2011\" width=\"610\" height=\"340\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12566\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Turkish Airlines crowned : Best Airline Europe 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>Turkey\u2019s national carrier was named the best airline in Europe at the 2011 World Airline Awards at the French Air and Space Museum.<\/h1>\n<p>Over 18.8 million airline passengers from 100 different nationalities voted and Turkish Airlines (THY) was awarded the \u201cBest Airline Europe\u201d prize by Skytrax, the world\u2019s largest airline review site, in recognition of the quality of its in-cabin service and the range of locations it flies to in the European aviation sector. THY also won the \u201cWorld\u2019s Best Premium Economy Class Airline Seat\u201d and \u201cBest Airline Southern Europe\u201d awards. The runners-up were Swiss International Air Lines, ahead of Germany\u2019s Lufthansa in third position in the best European airline category.<\/p>\n<h2>Turkish Airlines invest in quality, gets feedback in awards<\/h2>\n<p>Skytrax\u2019s CEO Edward Plaisted praised THY in a statement on the company\u2019s awards website. \u201cTurkish Airlines continues to invest in quality product and service concepts and this has been key in their success at this year\u2019s awards. We have witnessed a steady rise up the global rankings for Turkish, and this has seen them enter the top 10 (ninth) for the first time. To secure the award for Best Premium Economy Seat indicates that Turkish Airlines is providing passengers with a world class onboard experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 9)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey\u2019s national carrier was named the best airline in Europe at the 2011 World Airline Awards at the French Air and Space Museum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":562,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,80,68,63,17,194,173,14],"tags":[16111,16113,14680,16110,15944,14682],"class_list":["post-12563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-breaking-news","category-business","category-daily","category-europe","category-turkey-general","category-turkey-headlines","category-world","tag-best-airlines-award","tag-skytrax-best-airline","tag-thy","tag-turkish-airlines-best-airlines","tag-turkish-airlines-flights","tag-turkish-airlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}