Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport and Skopje Airport have been named among the top ten best in Eastern Europe for a fourth consecutive year at the 2018 Skytrax World Airport Awards held in Stockholm. Belgrade Airport was placed sixth among Eastern Europe’s best airports, down one place from 2017's rank, while Skopje managed tenth position, retaining its spot from last year. The category was won by Budapest. No other airport from the former Yugoslavia managed to enter the top ten of any category. Furthermore, no airport in the region was among the top 100 best airports in the world, with Singapore’s Changi Airport taking the title for a sixth year in a row. The 2018 World Airport Awards were based on 13.73 million customer nominations across 100 nationalities of air travellers, and included 550 airports worldwide.
WORLD AIRPORT AWARDS - BEST AIRPORTS IN EASTERN EUROPE
| Position | Airport |
|---|---|
| 1 | Budapest |
| 2 | Tallinn |
| 3 | Kiev Boryspil |
| 4 | Bucharest |
| 5 | Riga |
| 6 | Belgrade |
| 7 | Tbilisi |
| 8 | Bratislava |
| 9 | Sofia |
| 10 | Skopje |
Over the past four years, Belgrade Airport has invested heavily in improving its facilities, with the addition of three new gates, the expansion of its departure lounges, replacement of old air bridges, the overhaul of its business class lounge, construction of a de-icing platform, opening of new retail space and the installation of a visual docking guidance system for aircraft. Furthermore, the airport completed the overhaul of its Terminal 1 building last year. On the other hand, since opening its new terminal in September 2011, Skopje Airport has been no stranger to awards. On several occasions since 2013, it has been named the best airport in Europe handling under two million passengers according to Airports Council International (ACI). With six air bridges and a capacity to handle four million passengers per year, some 110 million euros were invested into the terminal building. In the last three years, Skopje Airport redesigned its departure security checkpoints and relocated its duty free shop, as well as its food and beverage facilities. Earlier this month, General Manager, Alper Ersoy, said, "Our main goal in 2018 is to always provide high quality services to our passengers and customers. We will continue to focus on passenger satisfaction and work hard to be ranked as the best in our category".
WORLD AIRPORT AWARDS - BEST AIRPORTS IN EUROPE
| Position | Airport |
|---|---|
| 1 | Munich |
| 2 | London Heathrow |
| 3 | Zurich |
| 4 | Frankfurt |
| 5 | Amsterdam |
| 6 | Helsinki |
| 7 | Vienna |
| 8 | Copenhagen |
| 9 | Hamburg |
| 10 | London City |
The World Airport Awards are considered the most prestigious accolades for the airport industry voted by customers in the largest annual global airport customer satisfaction survey. The evaluation took place between August 2017 and February 2018. It is the fourth time in the award’s nineteen-year history that two airports from the former Yugoslavia have entered the top ten of any category, which includes the world’s best airport, most improved airport, airport with the best staff, best security and best transit airport, to name a few. According to Skytrax, the survey and awards process is independent and guaranteed free of any airport influence or interference in final results. It evaluates customer satisfaction across 39 key performance indicators for airport service and product - from check-in, arrivals, transfers, shopping, security and immigration, through to departure at the gate. The World Airline Awards, also organised by Skytrax, where Adria Airways, Air Serbia and Croatia Airlines have featured among the ten best carriers in Eastern Europe, takes place in July.
WORLD AIRPORT AWARDS - WORLD'S TOP 10
| Position | Airport |
|---|---|
| 1 | Singapore |
| 2 | Seoul Incheon |
| 3 | Tokyo Haneda |
| 4 | Hong Kong |
| 5 | Doha |
| 6 | Munich |
| 7 | Nagoya Centrair |
| 8 | London Heathrow |
| 9 | Zurich |
| 10 | Frankfurt |
Comments
SKP must be much more above in the list as TAV managed to make dramatic changes.
BEG will soon be topping the chart following Vinci´s concession.
As for TLL, yes. I have flown there in 2016 and the airport is really amazing. Well deserved.
Finally, BUD has been working very hard to open new routes, be very competitive as a destination, the terminals are a bit small maybe but fully operational.
Finally, I am really surprised why ZAG is not in the list. The shiny, new terminal, new routes. Maybe they are also considering competitive routes?
apparently they have opened a new arrivals terminal in December
SKP (which is exactly a bigger copy of it) is more pleasant to use
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Btw, I think W6 are going to end INI-DTM :( It is the only destination not updated in the winter 2018. Does anybody have more info?
My favourite European airports are ZRH, AMS, BCN and MUC.
Last time I used terminal 5 was 2009 soon after it was opened. I was impressed by architecture but not else. Satellite gates are not that convenient.
Terminal 4 now used by AirSerbia after deal with Etihad is quite convenient. Overall LHR is bit confusing with terminals separate and bus needed between them.
btw. Is Wizz really ending Dortmund??
1 London Heathrow - T2
2 Munich - T2
3 Singapore Changi - T3
4 London Heathrow - T5
5 Tokyo Haneda - Int'l
6 Madrid - T4
7 Dubai - T3
8 Paris CDG - T2-M
9 Mumbai - T2
10 Baku Heydar Aliyev Airport - T1
(Nadam se they build a new terminal soon)
BVA and STN both have horrible reviews on internet.
Check in area is much better, gates renovated (almost all A7/10 are still embarrassing), more shops, bakery, pharmacy in international zone, bookshop, lots of places to chill out for transfer passengers. They have even started getting toilets in order which is very good.
However, many shortcoming are there to be resolved and hope Vinci will deal with much needed separation of arriving/departing passengers. This is directly making losses to the airport as people go through the gate security early and do not spend up until last minute which is in the airport interest. Passport control area is not bad but it gets crowded when three planes arrive at the same time and police officers are not diligent enough to be there on time and control passports but appear only when the crowd is already there. Automatic control is not frequently used as it is not working for all Serbian passports, namely those issued before 2010, if I am not wrong, and that is majority at the moment. Finally, arrival area is very small dark basement hall with little space full of illegal taxi drivers. Hopefully it will all improve soon.
Yes, it was the only time in 2013 AlItalia offered that connection on JU and AF flights. Ticket was very cheap, around 160 rt if I am not wrong. Bologna-Belgrade was through FCO, which is transfer disaster on its own, as you mentioned. :)
SKP-CGN (3 weekly) - operated by A321
SKP-DTM (3 weekly) - operated by A320
SKP-DUS (seasonal) - operated by A321
SOF-CGN (4 weekly) - operated by B738
SOF-DTM (daily) - operated by A320
PRN-CGN (6 weekly) - operated by A319 or B738
But I hope I am wrong. INI already lost EIN for the same reason :( poor load factors. What is more worrying are the really low rates INI-DTM even in July 2018.
1) FRA - completed by 2022
https://terminal3-infografiken.frankfurt-airport.com/en/
2) New Istanbul Airport - due to open Oct 2018
http://www.igairport.com/en/
Now this is what I call a true high class airport!! Unfortunately, more than 400 workers already died since they began the construction.
A huge part of MUC is terminal 1. That is for all non-Star Alliance airlines. And it is really not pleasant to start any trip there.
Terminal 2 of MUC was great from the very beginning, and still is, despite the new "satellite". But I know a lot of folks from Munich that happily pay more to fly Lufthansa only to avoid terminal 1 of MUC
I had a huge trouble with satellite gates on T2 earlier in March. The train was out of work so we were bused there but only after taking four flights of stairs to come down. Not really pleasant with sizeable hand luggage.