PAX Readers Honor Innovation

PAX readers honor innovation

By Rick Lundstrom on April, 10 2017 | Catering

Hamburg – Airlines, caterers and product suppliers from around the world gathered the Paris Room of the Radisson Blu Hotel Wednesday evening as the readers of PAX International honored their eﬀorts of the past year.

Visitors were ﬁlled in on a brief history of PAX International, which, this spring notes its 20th anniversary in publication.

This is the third year that PAX International has held its Readership Awards in Hamburg. In an expanded program, 25 winners from airlines, airline caterers and suppliers of seating, inﬂight entertainment and amenity items received the honors. The winners were picked through an online balloting process from the magazine’s website.

“The readership awards celebrates the achievements within our industry,” said PAX International Publisher Aijaz Khan.

This year, PAX International also awarded honors for Best Inﬂight Duty Free Program for two airlines, Outstanding IFE and Connectivity and Best Cabin Interior Passenger Experience Enhancement. Several suppliers of amenity kits were also honored.

During the evening event, PAX International Editor in Chief Rick Lundstrom noted not only the awards, but also signiﬁcant achievements by the winners in the past year. 1

Copyright DutyFree Magazine. All rights reserved. “I also urge everyone attending to take part next year in our readership awards.”said PAX International Editor-in-Chief Rick Lundstrom. “All the information you need can be found on the magazine’s website.”

PAX International has been covering the cabin services industry since 1997 with print issues, electronic newsletters and a regularly updated website. The publication ﬁrst hosted the Readership Awards in Bahrain in 2005.

The following are the winners from each category and region:

Americas

Outstanding Food Service by a Carrier (Two Winners)

Aeromexico and Copa Airlines

Airline Caterer of the Year

Flying Food Group

Asia

Outstanding Food Service by a Carrier (Two Winners)

Korean Air and China Southern Airlines

Airline Caterer of the Year dnata Singapore

Best Inﬂight Duty Free Program

Korean Air

Europe

Outstanding Food Service by a Carrier

Austrian Airlines

Airline Caterer of the Year

LSG Sky Chefs

Best Inﬂight Duty Free Program

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines 2

Africa

Outstanding Food Service by a Carrier

Ethiopian Airlines

Middle East

Outstanding Food Service by a Carrier

Saudi Arabian Airlines

Airline Caterer of the Year

Emirates Flight Catering

Best Inﬂight Duty Free Program

Oman Air

Best New IFE and Connectivity digEcor’s Glide System

Best Cabin Interior Passenger

Experience Enhancement

STG Aerospace

Best Seating

Acro Aircraft Seating

Amenity Supplier Awards

Americas

Best First/Business Class Americas

FORMIA for AeroMexico and WESSCO International for Copa Airlines

Best First/Business Class

Harmony/gategroup for Singapore Airlines and WESSCO International for Garuda Indonesia

Europe

Best First/Business Class

SPIRIANT for Lufthansa German Airlines

Best Economy Class skysupply for Lufthansa German Airlines

Middle East

Best First/Business Class

Galileo Watermark for Kuwait Airways

Best Economy Class

FORMIA for Qatar Airways