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World’s most courteous, friendly, helpful and efficient airline crews belong to Asian airlines - not even one airline outside the continent features in the list of airlines with the best flight attendants.
The list features airlines that were rated by fliers in 160 countries who completed 18 million customer satisfaction surveys.
Here are the top 10 airlines with the best cabin crew.
Source: SkytraxWorld Airline Awards
Cathay Pacific Airways
Rank: 1
Country: Hong Kong SAR
The airline is the international carrier of Hong Kong. It flies to 168 destinations (including passenger aircraft and cargo). It is also the founding member of One World Alliance.
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Asiana Airlines
Rank: 2
Country: South Korea
It is one between the two major airlines of South Korea. The other one is Korean Air.
It operates 14 domestic, 90 international passenger routes and 27 cargo routes.
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Malaysia Airlines
Rank: 3
Country: Malaysia
Malaysia Airlines is the national carrier of Malaysia. It became a full-fledged member of oneworld alliance and is now connected to some 850 destinations in 150 countries across the One World Alliance network.
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EVA Air
Rank: 4
Country: Taiwan
Taiwan’s second largest airline, EVA Air operates passenger and dedicated cargo to over 40 destinations.
EVA Air is also the sixth safest international airline in the world, with no hull losses and fatalities since its establishment in 1989.
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Singapore Airlines
Rank: 5
Country: Singapore
The national carrier of Singapore, the airline has a strong presence in Southeast Asia.
The company also operates trans-Pacific flights, including the world's two longest non-stop commercial flights from Singapore to Newark and Los Angeles on the Airbus A340-500, according to Wikipedia.
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ANA All Nippon Airways
Rank: 6
Country: Japan
Japan’s largest airlie, it operates services to 49 destinations in Japan and 32 international routes and employed over 14,000 employees.
ANA has an extensive domestic route network that covers the entirety of Japan, from Hokkaido in the north to Okinawa in the south. ANA's international route network extends through China, Korea, and Southeast Asia, United States and Western Europe, according to Wikipedia.
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Garuda Indonesia
Rank: 7
Country: Indonesia
Named after the mythical bird Garuda, the airline is the national carrier of Indonesia.
The airline operates flights to a number of destinations in Southeast Asia, East Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Australia from its main hub, Soekarno–Hatta International Airport. It flies to around 21 international destinations and 35 domestic.
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Qatar Airways
Rank: 8
Country: Qatar
A national carrier, it operates a hub-and-spoke network, linking over 100 international destinations from its base in Doha, using a fleet of more than 100 aircraft.
The airline has more than 20,000 staff, with 14,000 people employed directly and a further 6,000 in its subsidiaries, according to Wikipedia.
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Hainan Airlines
Rank: 9
Country: China
Largest privately own airline in China, Hainan Airlines operates the fourth largest fleet in the country.
Hainan Airlines is one of only seven airlines rated as five-star by Skytrax, along with All Nippon Airways, Asiana Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Malaysia Airlines, Qatar Airways, and Singapore Airlines.
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Thai Airways
Rank: 10
Country: Thailand
The national carrier of Thailand, Thai Airways flies to 75 destinations in 35 countries, using a fleet of more than 80 aircraft.
The airline was once the operator of two of the world's longest nonstop routes between Thailand and Los Angeles and New York, but due to high fuel prices, the withdrawal of aircraft, luggage weight limits, and rising airfares, the airline abandoned all nonstop U.S. services in 2012 indefinitely, according to Wikipedia.