- Global Traveler's Best Airline in North America for the third straight
year
- Global Traveler's Best Airline Cabin Cleanliness for the
second straight year
- APEX Five-Star rating reflects performance based on
passenger feedback
- Business Traveler Magazine's Best North American Airline for
International Travel
- Air Canada also sweeps
StudentUniverse's six Canadian travel awards voted in annual
airline survey
MONTREAL, Dec. 1, 2021 /CNW Telbec/ - Air Canada has been
named the Best Airline in North
America for the third straight year by the readers of
Global Traveler. The airline also won for Best Airline Cabin
Cleanliness for the second consecutive year in the 18th
edition of the GT Tested Reader Survey of the magazine's readership
of frequent business and luxury travelers.
Additionally, in its annual ratings for 2022, APEX has
reaffirmed Air Canada as a Five-Star Global Airline in the
APEX Official Airline Ratings, based on
customer feedback. For the 2022 awards, nearly one million
flights were evaluated by passengers across more than 600 airlines
from around the world using a five-star scale. The APEX Official
Airline Ratings were created based on neutral, third-party
passenger feedback and insights gathered through APEX's partnership
with TripIt from Concur and independently certified by an external
auditing company.
"Thank you to our passionate employees who've worked tirelessly
as we welcome our customers back. Without these dedicated employees
and our loyal customers, being recognized with Global Traveler's
Best Airline in North America and
Best Airline Cabin Cleanliness, as well as APEX's five-star rating
and Business Traveler's Best North American Airline for
International Travel wouldn't be possible," said Lucie Guillemette, Executive Vice-President and
Chief Commercial Officer at Air Canada.
"The award-winning corporate culture we have built and
cultivated over the past decade, rooted in resilience, teamwork,
and empathy, is a key strength. It is our culture that allowed us
to pivot quickly, while keeping customers at the centre of
everything we did as we responded early in the pandemic, and this
continues. Our positive culture, combined with the appeal of Air
Canada's iconic brand, is enabling us to reinvent ourselves to
seize the many opportunities in the post-COVID marketplace."
Business Traveler Magazine also recently named Air
Canada the Best North American Airline for International Travel as
voted by its readership and the airline took home gold in all six
Canadian categories of StudentUniverse's annual student airline
survey:
- Best for international travel (Canada)
- Best for travel within Canada
(Canada)
- Best value for students and youth in 2021 (Canada)
- Best service for students and youth in 2021 (Canada)
- Safest during COVID-19 (Canada)
- Overall best airline for students and youth in 2021
(Canada)
These honours are the latest in a number of awards affirming Air
Canada's accomplishments in key aspects of its business including
people, product and employee engagement. Earlier this year, Air
Canada was recognized by the FXExpress Publications, Inc's family
of brands, which named Air Canada as a winner of six additional
awards:
Leisure Lifestyle Awards
- Best Airline for Onboard Entertainment for the third
consecutive year
- Best Premium Economy Class for the third consecutive year
- Best Airline for Onboard Menu for the third consecutive
year
The Trazees: Aimed at travellers aged 25–40
- Favorite Airline in North
America for the third consecutive year
Wherever Awards: Aimed at the modern travelling
family
- Best Family-Friendly Airline in North
America for the third consecutive year
- Best Family Friendly International Airline for the second
consecutive year
Other major awards and recognitions recently received by Air
Canada include:
- The Skytrax World Airline Awards are the latest recognitions
Air Canada has received for its products and customer service, and
the airline remains the only Skytrax Four-star international
network carrier in North
America:
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- Skytrax Best Airline Staff in North
America
- Skytrax Best Airline Staff in Canada
- Skytrax Best Business Class Lounge in North America
- Skytrax COVID-19 Airline Excellence
- Air Canada was selected among
the top companies within the 2021 Achievers 50 Most Engaged
Workplaces® Awards, which celebrates the top 50 employers that make
engagement, alignment and recognition central to the employee
experience. This latest award followed the airline being recently
named as one of the 50 Most Engaged Workplaces for the fifth
consecutive year for its commitment to employee engagement.
- Recognized as one of Canada's
Best Diversity Employers 2021 by Mediacorp for its partnerships to
create inclusive workplaces for employees from five diverse groups:
women, visible minorities, persons with disabilities, Aboriginal
peoples, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBTQ2)
people.
About Air Canada
Air Canada is Canada's largest domestic and international
airline, and in 2019 was among the top 20 largest airlines in the
world. It is Canada's flag carrier
and a founding member of Star
Alliance, the world's most comprehensive air transportation
network. Air Canada is the only
international network carrier in North
America to receive a Four-Star ranking according to
independent U.K. research firm Skytrax. In 2021, Air Canada was
named Global Traveler's Best Airline in North America for the third straight year. In
January 2021, Air Canada received
APEX's Diamond Status Certification for the Air Canada CleanCare+
biosafety program for managing COVID-19, the only airline in
Canada to attain the highest APEX
ranking. Air Canada has also
committed to a net zero emissions goal from all global operations
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