This Beautiful Airport Was Simply Named the Greatest within the World

In a story of two Asian airports with spectacular indoor gardens, Hamad Worldwide Airport (DOH) in Doha, Qatar, edged out 12-time winner Singapore’s Changi Airport (SIN) to attain the celebrated title of Skytrax’s World’s Greatest Airport for 2024. 

The airport, which opened in 2014, snagged the honors for the third time in its younger historical past, famous for being “essentially the most architecturally important terminal complicated on the earth,” the awards website described. 

The progressive design takes its inspiration from the Arabian Gulf’s light waves, drawing as much as 58 million vacationers into its dramatic light-infused areas. Its most iconic characteristic is a large tropical backyard known as the Orchard, overlaying greater than 64,000 sq. ft with greater than 300 vegetation and 25,000 vegetation. Inside the inexperienced oasis, an almost 6,200-square-foot water characteristic dazzles and delights. 

Named after a former Emir of Qatar, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the beautiful terminal additionally has greater than 130 retail shops, 45 eating choices, and an on-site Oryx Airport Lodge with a full-service spa and 82-foot pool. 

As the house base for the nationwide provider Qatar Airways, the group’s CEO Eng. Badr Al Meer mentioned in a press release: “Our gifted crew is pioneering and dedicated to ship glorious passenger expertise with business firsts and one-of-a-kind buying and eating choices set amidst our superlative infrastructure…We look ahead to persevering with to shock and delight passengers by creating memorable and distinctive passenger journeys within the years to come back.”

Doha Hammad led the domination of Asian airports, which took six of the highest 10 spots, with Singapore Changi in second, Seoul’s Incheon Worldwide Airport (ICN) in third, Tokyo’s Haneda Airport (HND) in fourth, Tokyo’s Narita Worldwide Airport (NRT) in fifth, and Dubai Worldwide Airport (DXB) in seventh.

European terminals scored the opposite 4 spots, with Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) in sixth, Munich Worldwide Airport (MUC) in eighth, Zurich Airport (ZRH) in ninth, and Istanbul Airport (IST) — situated on the European facet of town — in tenth.

The very best-ranked airport in North America was Canada’s Vancouver Worldwide Airport (YVR) within the seventeenth spot, whereas Seattle–Tacoma Worldwide Airport (SEA) claimed the best spot for U.S. airports in twenty fourth place. Different top-ranked American terminals included Houston’s William P. Interest Airport (HOU) in twenty ninth, New York Metropolis’s LaGuardia Airport (LGA) in thirty third, Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) in thirty eighth, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Worldwide Airport (CVG) in forty sixth, and San Francisco Worldwide Airport (SFO) in forty seventh.

Skytrax launched the World Airport Awards in 1999, primarily based on the biggest international survey of airport satisfaction of vacationers from greater than 100 nationalities, this yr taken from August 2023 to March 2024 on a spread of things, together with check-in, arrivals, buying, immigration, and safety.