Kathmandu, Mar. 17
Buddha Air and Qatar
Airways have bagged the Best Airlines of the Year award for
2022 on domestic and international category respectively.
Buddha Air's Birendra Bahadur Basnet also became the
CEO of the year.
The awards were organised by the Best Aviation Awards
Nepal (BAAN) earlier this week. It aimed at bringing Nepali tourism to the
attention of media around the world and announced the awards in 16 different
categories.
Likewise, Himalayan Airlines got the best airlines
award on hybrid category and Emirates Airways on offline category. Nepal
Airlines was honoured with the best national airlines and best service provider
for aviation – it manages the ground handling at the Tribhuvan International
Airport.
Other best are Qatar Airways for business class,
airlines rewards programme, and air fare policy, Fly Dubai for economy class, Air Arabia for
cabin crew, Turkish Airlines for transit airport lounge, and Jazeera Airways
for front desk support.
Similarly, Sarik Bogati of Qatar Airways received the
best airlines manager of the year award while Society International got best
general sales agent for foreign airlines.
According to the organisers, the winners were selected
on the basis of results obtained from the combination of online voting by the
public, data processing by the nomination board and the decision of the jury.
Various business leaders, experts, bankers, tourism entrepreneurs and
industrialists were included in the jury.
Nine internal airlines and 29 international airlines
conducting flight services to and from Nepal were included in the competition.
Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 18 March 2023.
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