Skytrax has crowned the best of the best airlines in various categories in their annual World Airline Awards, held on 17 June 2025.
Amongst these categories was Best Low-Cost Airline in Africa, and one South African budget airline has walked off with the title.
Beating out both LIFT Airline, which was awarded the same title last year, and Fastjet in the top three, FlySafair was named Best Low-Cost Airline in Africa for 2025.
Skytrax names World’s Best Airline
Known as ‘the Oscars of the aviation industry’, the World Airline Awards began in 1999, and are completely determined through a customer satisfaction survey conducted by Skytrax.
Skytrax once again crowned Qatar Airways as the World’s Best Airline, for a record-breaking ninth time.
Qatar Airways was also given the titles of World’s Best Business Class and Best Airline in the Middle East.
The top ten best airlines according to Skytrax were:
- Qatar Airways
- Singapore Airlines
- Cathay Pacific Airways
- Emirates
- ANA All Nippon Airways
- Turkish Airlines
- Korean Air
- Air France
- Japan Airlines
- Hainan Airlines
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