The world’s best airlines according to Conde Nast Traveler’s Readers’ Choice Awards 2024.
These are the best airlines of 2024, as voted by CNT readers in the Readers’ Choice Awards.
These days you can fly Pan Am and order boeuf bourgeois from Maxim’s of Paris. High-end in-flight dining is back on schedule, with a Michelin-starred restaurant creating dishes for KLM and Air New Zealand’s local menu – bread, smoked kawaii rillettes – with top dining ratings. Qatar Airways has the most comfortable seats and Emirates the best entertainment. Below you’ll find the world’s best airlines, according to CNT’s 2024 Readers’ Choice Awards – the airlines that readers of the world-renowned travel publication say go above and beyond in every way.
*Results below are percentages representing overall average satisfaction levels.
The best airlines in the world
- Air India. Score 80.73
- KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. Score 82.59
- Malaysia Airlines. Score 82.86
- Swiss International Air Lines. Score 83.00
- Delta Air Lines, USA Score 84.17
- Virgin Atlantic, UK. Score 85.17
- Etihad Airways, UAE. Score 85.18
- British Airways. Score 86.49
- Emirates, UAE. Score 86.92
- Qatar Airways. Result 87.11
- Singapore Airlines. Score 88.47
- Air New Zealand. Result 89.08