Turkish Airlines awarded Best in Europe in 2013

Turkish Airlines, the national carrier of Turkey, has been chosen Best Airline in Europe, Best Airline in Southern Europe and awarded Best Business Class Catering in the 2013 Skytrax World Airline Awards, announced this week at the Paris Air Show.
As a world recognized brand associated with air travel excellence in the 21st century, Skytrax has become a world leader in ranking aviation offers by providing unique products to the world airline and airport industry through professional audit and service benchmarking programs of airlines, airline alliances, airports and related air transport product and service suppliers across the globe.
Assessing over 238 airlines and 148 airports based on passenger input, Skytrax publishes and ranks aviation providers based on these submissions. And again this year, Turkish Airlines scored a resounding success at the 2013 Skytrax World Airline Awards, with air travelers voting the airline as the Best Airline in Europe, the third year running.
Turkish Airlines was also named as the winner in the category, Best Business Class Catering by adding the "Flying Chef" service for Business Class passengers on its long flights.
The three awards were presented by Skytrax CEO Edward Plaisted to Turkish Airlines' CEO Temel Kotil at The Paris Air Show. The results of the 2013 World Airline Awards followed a survey operated over a 10-month period across 160 countries.
Six years ago, in 2007, Turkish Airlines, was first ranked as a four star airline by Skytrax. While keeping its 4-star airline title again in 2008, Turkish Airlines joined Star Alliance and was also named the Best Airline in Southern Europe.