This Stunning Airport Was Just Named the Best in the World

In a story of 2 Asian airports with impressive indoor fields, Hamad World Airport (DOH) in Doha, Qatar, edged out 12-time winner Singapore’s Changi Airport (SIN) to attain the distinguished identify of Skytrax’s Global’s Perfect Airport for 2024. 

The airport, which opened in 2014, snagged the honors for the 3rd moment in its younger historical past, famous for being “the most architecturally significant terminal complex in the world,” the awards website described. 

The cutting edge design takes its inspiration from the Arabian Gulf’s tender waves, drawing as much as 58 million vacationers into its dramatic light-infused areas. Its maximum iconic trait is a immense tropical field known as the Orchard, protecting greater than 64,000 sq. toes with greater than 300 crops and 25,000 crops. Inside the inexperienced oasis, a just about 6,200-square-foot aqua trait dazzles and delights. 

Named then a former Emir of Qatar, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the great terminal additionally has greater than 130 retail retail outlets, 45 eating choices, and an on-site Oryx Airport Resort with a full-service spa and 82-foot pond. 

As the house bottom for the nationwide provider Qatar Airlines, the crowd’s CEO Eng. Badr Al Meer stated in a remark: “Our talented team is pioneering and committed to deliver excellent passenger experience with industry firsts and one-of-a-kind shopping and dining offerings set amidst our superlative infrastructure…We look forward to continuing to surprise and delight passengers by creating memorable and exceptional passenger journeys in the years to come.”

Doha Hammad led the domination of Asian airports, which took six of the peak 10 spots, with Singapore Changi in 2d, Seoul’s Incheon World Airport (ICN) in 3rd, Tokyo’s Haneda Airport (HND) in fourth, Tokyo’s Narita World Airport (NRT) in 5th, and Dubai World Airport (DXB) in 7th.

Ecu terminals scored the alternative 4 spots, with Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) in 6th, Munich World Airport (MUC) in 8th, Zurich Airport (ZRH) in 9th, and Istanbul Airport (IST) — positioned at the Ecu facet of town — in tenth.

The top-ranked airport in North The us used to be Canada’s Vancouver World Airport (YVR) within the seventeenth spot, future Seattle–Tacoma World Airport (SEA) claimed the easiest spot for U.S. airports in twenty fourth park. Alternative top-ranked American terminals integrated Houston’s William P. Pastime Airport (HOU) in twenty ninth, Unused York Town’s LaGuardia Airport (LGA) in thirty third, Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) in thirty eighth, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky World Airport (CVG) in forty sixth, and San Francisco World Airport (SFO) in forty seventh.

Skytrax introduced the Global Airport Awards in 1999, according to the most important world survey of airport pride of vacationers from greater than 100 nationalities, this while taken from August 2023 to March 2024 on a length of things, together with check-in, arrivals, buying groceries, immigration, and safety.