Qatar Airways named world’s best airline for 2025 by Skytrax, S'pore Airlines comes in 2nd

Qatar Airways has been named the winner at the 2025 Skytrax World Airline Awards, announced on Jun. 17 at the Paris Air Show.

It’s the ninth time Qatar Airways has come up tops in the 26-year history of the awards, which are known as the Oscars of the aviation world.

Singapore Airlines, a five-time winner of World’s Best Airline award, took second place this year.

The Singapore national carrier also received the award for World’s Best Cabin Crew, along with World’s Best First Class and the Best Airline in Asia.

Qatar Airways, established only in 1993, was also named Best Airline in the Middle East, World’s Best Business Class, and Best Business Class Airline Lounge.

Rounding off the top five list are Hong Kong’s flag carrier Cathay Pacific in third, Dubai’s Emirates airline in fourth place, and Japan’s ANA All Nippon Airways in fifth.

World’s Top 20 Airlines in 2025

1. Qatar Airways

2. Singapore Airlines

3. Cathay Pacific

4. Emirates

5. ANA All Nippon Airways

6. Turkish Airlines

7. Korean Air

8. Air France

9. Japan Airlines

10. Hainan Airlines

11. Swiss Int’l Air Lines

12. EVA Air

13. British Airways

14. Qantas Airways

15. Lufthansa

16. Virgin Atlantic

17. Saudi Arabian Airlines

18. STARLUX Airlines

19. Air Canada

20. Iberia

Here are the other results.

World’s Best Cabin Crew 2025

1. Singapore Airlines

2. ANA All Nippon Airways

3. Cathay Pacific Airways

4. Garuda Indonesia

5. EVA Air

6. Hainan Airlines

7. Japan Airlines

8. Malaysia Airlines

9. Starlux Airlines

10. Korean Air

World’s Best Low-Cost Airlines 2025

1. AirAsia

2. Scoot

3. Indigo

4. Eurowings

5. Vueling Airlines

6. Volotea

7. Transavia

8. Iberia Express

9. Flynas

10. easyJet

About the survey

The World Airline Awards was introduced in 1999 to provide a customer satisfaction study.

Travellers across the world voted in the largest airline passenger satisfaction survey to determine the award winners.

The online survey operated from September 2024 to May 2025, and more than 100 customer nationalities participated.

All survey entries were screened to identify IP and user information, with duplicate, suspect and ineligible entries deleted.

Over 325 airlines feature in the survey results.

The customer survey was provided in English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, Japanese and Chinese.

Top image via Wikimedia Commons.