Turkish Airlines was awarded the "Airline of the Year" while AirAsia was the winner of the "Low Cost Airline of the Year" from the Air Transport News (ATN).
"On behalf of Turkish Airlines, I am much honored to receive such a significant award as "Airline of the Year" from Air Transport News since it is a distinguished online information source for our industry, said Turkish Airlines CEO Dr. Temel Kotil.
"This award once again proves that Turkish Airlines is definitely the world's rising star in aviation. We highly appreciate this award as it will boost our ambitions for harder work to be always the best in our business," said Kotil.
Istanbul Ataturk Airport was awarded the Airport of the Year category. Dr Sani Sener, CEO/Executive Board Member, TAV Airports Holding said: "It is a great honor to be selected by a distinguished group ofaviation industry experts as the 2013 Airport of the Year. It is also a great achievement to realize this award at a time when Istanbul Ataturk Airport is growing at an exceptional 20% rate every year."
AirAsia was the winner of the Low Cost Airline of the Year category and Geneve Aeroport Airport of the Year 10-30 Million Passengers.
Accepting the awards AirAsia Group CEO Tony Fernandes said: "We are greatly honored to be presented the 2013 Air Transport News 'Low Cost Airline of the Year' award, one of the aviation industry's prestigious honours."
"Our never-ending dedication in providing premium services with low fares, constant innovations and matchless synergy of our short-hauland long-haul networks have greatly contributed to our success as the best low cost airline in the world. It is simply amazing to think that 11 years ago we only had 2 old planes in operation, and now we are operating 120 planes in five countries and continue to be the most profitable airline, despite volatile economic conditions," said Fernandes.
Robert Deillon, CEO Geneve Aeroport said: "It is a great honor andpleasure for Geneva Airport to be nominated as" Airport of the year"in the category of 10 to 30 million passengers by Air Transport News. This price recognized the efforts we have made to follow the important traffic's growth we had the last few years by upgrading our facilities and improving our customer's service."
"Bombardier is honored to be recognized by Air Transport News as Regional Aircraft Manufacturer of the Year. This past year was significant for Bombardier given all the advancement made on our all-new CSeries aircraft program as well as the breakthrough into new regional markets for our Q400 NextGen aircraft and CRJ NextGen family of aircraft," said Mike Arcamone, President, Bombardier Commercial Aircraft.
The winners by category are as follows:
Regional Aircraft Manufacturer of the Year: Bombardier
Aircraft Manufacturer of the Year: Airbus
Engine Manufacturer of the Year: Rolls-Royce
Ground Handler of the Year: Celebi Holding
IT Company of the Year: SITA
MRO Company of the Year: Lufthansa Technik
Airline Alliance of the Year: Star Alliance
Airport of the Year under 10 Million Passengers: Rajiv Gandhi International Airport
Airport of the Year 10-30 Million Passengers: Geneve Aeroport Airport of the Year: Istanbul Ataturk Airport
Cargo Airline of the Year: FedEx
Regional Airline of the Year: SilkAir
Low Cost Airline of the Year: AirAsia
Airline of the Year: Turkish Airlines
George Iatrou Lifetime Achievement Award: Professor Tae Oum, President, ATRS
Woman of the Year: Angela Gittens, Director General, ACI
Leader of the Year: Raymond Benjamin, Secretary General, ICAO
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