 | Sponsors of ERA Airline of
the Year |
 2008/9 Winners
left to right:
Geoffrey O'Byrne White, CityJet (SILVER), Antonis Simigdalas, Aegean Airlines (GOLD), Richard Kongsteien, Wideroe (BRONZE) |
The ERA Airline of the Year Award recognises excellence and achievement by three ERA airline members - GOLD, SILVER and BRONZE - and encourages the highest standards across the intra-European air transport industry.
A focus on achievement - judging criteria
The criteria of the Airline of the Year Award focus on the accomplishment of specific achievements. Achievements may cover any area of an airline's business whether it is financial, environmental, training, IT, industry affairs / political, technical and many more. It may cover strategy or tactics. It may have benefited your airline or the industry as a whole, or both. It may be one major achievement or a series of smaller achievements that may either stand alone or together to make up one big achievement.
ERA airline members are diverse and vary considerably in size, ownership, business model and operating environment. As a result they have different challenges to overcome and it would be unfair to compare one airline's achievements against another whose circumstances may be quite different.
Background information to this effect is therefore requested on the Entry Form, in addition to the Achievement(s). In this way, the judges are able to assess each airline’s achievements against their own merits, rather than compared with other airlines whose operating conditions may be quite different. It also ensures that direct knowledge or experience of a particular airline is not necessary to make such an assessment. Thus the Award is accessible to all ERA airlines and they all have equal chances of meriting the Award.
Judging procedure
One of the major assets of the ERA Airline of the Year Award is the quality, independence and fairness of its judging procedure. The judging panel comprises a mix of industry's senior experts together with respected air transport journalists from all over Europe. Panellists are carefully selected for their knowledge and ability to assess achievements against the specific circumstances and constraints under which individual airlines operate.
How to Enter
Entry to the ERA Airline of the Year Award is open to ERA Airline members only, and is entirely free of charge. Entries must be submitted on the official ERA Airline of the Year Entry Form which will be despatched to all airline members by email around Easter time 2009. The winners will be announced at the ERA General Assembly Awards Dinner in Iinterlaken, Switzerland on 8 October 2009.
For further information on this Award please contact: lesley.shepherd@eraa.org
Click on the following to view information about other ERA Awards:
• ERA Airport Achievement Award
• ERA Hank McGonagle Journalism Award
• ERA Palme d’Or
• ERA Director General’s Commendation for Services to the Industry
| 2008/9
AWARD HOLDERS:
AEGEAN AIRLINES
CITYJET
WIDERØE
2007/8
Air Nostrum
Tyrolean Airways
CityJet
2006/7
Eastern Airways
Aegean Airlines
Blue1
2005/6
Binter Canarias
Aegean Airlines
Aer Arann
2004/5
Aegean Airlines
Eastern Airways
Aer Arann
2003/4
Air Nostrum
Eastern Airways
Air Botnia/Blue1
2002/3
Air Nostrum
Widerøe
Air Dolomiti
2001/2
Eurowings
Widerøe
Air Dolomiti
2000/1
Skyways
Eurowings
Aegean Airlines
1999
Air Nostrum
1998
Air Dolomiti
1997
Tyrolean Airways
1996
Crossair
1995
Regional Airlines
1994
Brit Air
1993
Cimber Air
1992
Binter Canarias
1991
Binter Canarias
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