The best in first, business class travel recognised by Australian Business Traveller Awards

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

The best in first, business class travel recognised by Australian Business Traveller Awards

Etihad Airways, Singapore Airlines, Qantas, Cathay Pacific and Virgin Australia share line honours in the Australian Business Traveller Awards for 2015.

The Australian Business Traveller Awards recognise the trend-setters and game-changers in the highly competitive business travel market across 30 categories including first class suites and business class seats, airport lounges, frequent flyer programs, inflight food and wine, travel technology and more.

Etihad Airways was chosen as best first class, with its spacious Airbus A380 First Apartment suites reinventing first class flying, with the world’s best international business class award going to Singapore Airlines for its new long-range Boeing 777-300ER fleet.

Qantas' all-new Airbus A330 Business Suite was selected as the world’s best domestic business class seat, with the elegant inflight lounge and bar on Qatar Airways’ Airbus A380 recognised as the world’s best inflight lounge.

Cathay Pacific’s recently-opened The Pier First Class Lounge in Hong Kong was hailed as the world’s best first class lounge, and the Qantas Hong Kong Loungeselected as the world’s best business class lounge.

Singapore Airlines also won for Best Inflight Food, with Qantas recognised for Best Inflight Wine.

The award for best frequent flyer program went to Virgin Australia Velocity Frequent Flyer, with Star Alliance chosen as the best airline alliance for the business traveller.