National carrier wins

Air New Zealand has won the Australia-Pacific’s best airline and the region’s staff service excellence award and was voted fifth in the world in the annual Skytrax awards. Eighteen million people voted in this year’s awards. The top award was taken out by Korea’s Asiana Airlines followed by Singapore Airlines, Qatar Airways and Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific. Air New Zealand was also named Best Airline by readers of the UK’s top consumer magazine at the 21 Which? Awards.