{"id":853813,"date":"2026-09-20T01:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T01:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/853813\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T01:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T01:12:16","slug":"in-bit-of-a-bad-year-for-aviation-one-airline-stands-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/853813\/","title":{"rendered":"In &#8216;Bit of a Bad Year for Aviation,&#8217; One Airline Stands Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        If you&#8217;re judging airlines like a Hollywood awards show, Singapore Airlines just snagged the big Oscar. The carrier has been named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldairlineawards.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Skytrax&#8217;s airline of the year<\/a> for 2026, its sixth win in the survey-based rankings and a reclaiming of the title from Qatar Airways, which fell to No. 2, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/09\/18\/travel\/skytrax-worlds-best-airline\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>. Singapore Airlines also topped the &#8220;economy class&#8221; and &#8220;economy class catering&#8221; categories. The awards landed as executives weighed higher fuel costs, geopolitical conflicts, aircraft delays, and what Skytrax&#8217;s CEO called &#8220;a bit of a bad year&#8221; for aviation. Here, the top 10: <\/p>\n<p>  Singapore Airlines  Qatar Airways  Cathay Pacific  ANA\/All Nippon Airways  Turkish Airlines  Emirates  Air France  Hainan Airlines  Japan Airlines  Korean Air <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; If you&#8217;re judging airlines like a Hollywood awards show, Singapore Airlines just snagged the big Oscar. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[57976,360525,4324,360523,28,51529,66197,14230,179160,360524,163272],"class_list":["post-853813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-air-canada","tag-airline-passengers","tag-airlines","tag-all-nippon-airways","tag-business","tag-emirates","tag-flying","tag-lists","tag-qatar-airways","tag-singapore-airlines","tag-turkish-airlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}