AirAsia Leads Contenders for Budgies Awards

The World Low Cost Airlines Congress has announced the names of the LCC carriers nominated for this year’s Budgies Awards .

The Congress takes place at the Sofitel, London Heathrow, on September 19-21.

The finalists are:

Best Low Cost Airline

1. Air Asia
2. Indigo
3. Jetstar Airways
4. Cebu Pacific Air
5. Air Arabia
6. Spring Airlines
7. Skymark
8. Ryanair

Best Airport

1. Marseille
2. Sharjah
3. Kuala Lumpur
4. Copenhagen
5. GMR Hyderabad
6. Ibaraki (near Tokyo)
7. Changi

Best Website

1. Ryanair
2. Vueling
3. Air Asia
4. Iceland Express
5. Germanwings
6. Wizzair
7. Pegasus
8. Allegiant
9. Norwegian

CEO of the Year

1. Azran Osman-Rani, AirAsia X
2. Lance Gokongwei/ Garry Kingshott, Cebu Pacific
3. Aditya Ghosh/Rahul Batia, Indigo
4. Tony Fernandes, AirAsia
5. Ben Baldanza, Spirit Airlines
6. Carolyn McCall, easyJet

Technology Foresight Award

1. Cybersource
2. RED
3. Optiontown
4. EzRez
5. Star Alliance apps

Best Ancillary Revenue Innovation

1. Ink
2. AirBaltic
3. Vueling
4. Spirit
5. SkyExpress
6. Qantas

Best Sales and Distribution Innovation

1. Navitaire
2. Virgin Australia - Delta codeshare
3. Virgin – Singapore Airlines, Air New Zealand and Etihad
4. easyJet
5. Radixx

Airlines Pacesetter Award

1. Air Asia X
2. Vueling
3. Spring
4. Wizz Air
5. Skymark

(Source: Travelmole.com)