A multiple award-winning airline, Qatar Airways won the ‘World’s
Best Airline’ for an unprecedented ninth time at the 2025 World Airline Awards,
managed by the international air transport rating organisation, Skytrax. Qatar
Airways was previously named the World’s Best Airline in 2011, 2012, 2015,
2017, 2019, 2021, 2022, and 2024. The airline continues to be synonymous with
excellence, and has yet again received recognition for ‘World's Best Business
Class’, and ‘World's Best Business Class Airline Lounge’. As the leading
connector in the region, Qatar Airways has also been lauded with the ‘Best
Airline in the Middle East’ title for the twelfth time.
Qatar Airways currently flies to over 170 destinations
worldwide, connecting through its Doha hub, Hamad International Airport, the
‘Best Airport in the Middle East’ for 11 consecutive years, as well as ‘World’s
Best Airport Shopping’ for the third year in a row, as voted by Skytrax. Hamad
International Airport has previously been named the ‘World’s Best Airport’ by
Skytrax in 2021, 2022, and 2024.
Qatar Airways was the first Airline in the Middle East to be
certified to the highest level of IATA’s Environmental Assessment (IEnvA)
programme, based on recognised environmental management system principles (such
as ISO 14001). As an inaugural signatory to the Buckingham Palace Declaration
in March 2016, Qatar Airways became the first airline globally to be certified
to the industry standard for the prevention of illegal wildlife trafficking in
aviation.
