This Airline Was Just Named “World’s Worst” For the 4th Year in a Row
Jesse Tabit September 02, 2015
PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA - 2012/01/23: Hamburger offered on a Tu-204 airplane. The Tu-204 aircraft are currently scheduled on all international flights out of Pyongyang. Air Koryo is the state-owned national flag carrier airline of North Korea, headquartered in Sunan-guyk, Pyongyang.Air Koryo is the state-owned national flag carrier airline of North Korea, headquartered in Sunan-guyk, Pyongyang. (Photo by Zhang Peng/LightRocket via Getty Images)
For the fourth consecutive year, North Korea’s Air Koryo has been named the “world’s worst” airline by SkyTrax consultancy agency. The ranking is based on a five-star system with a list that included more than 180 airlines, evaluated primarily on service instead of safety.
Simon Cockerell of Koryo Group – a North Korean travel agency – disagrees with the notion that Air Koryo is the worst airline in the world, but he did acknowledge that the airline has some weaknesses in areas SkyTrax analyzes, such as crews who don’t tend to speak foreign languages efficiently and meals that leave quite a bit to be desired.
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Has SkyTrax EVER had any credibility with frequent flyers? For as long as I can remember, their ratings have been regarded as a joke/motivated by airline marketing teams rather than any objective criteria.
Ridiculous - how would such a tiny airline even have a chance to alienate a sufficient number of passengers? With such abominations as the AI leviathan cruising the skies, this just the last leftover of cheap Cold War propaganda.
I can't be the only one to think this.... Could the rating be politically motivated? SkyTraxx is a western based organization after all.
US carriers are Western World's Air Koryo...
Oh, man. Cannot wait for specifics about the frequent flyer program. The lounges? Room temperature water and jail cells?