AirAsia named World's Best Low-Cost Airline for the eighth year running

PHAR client AirAsia has been named the World's Best Low-Cost Airline and Asia's Best Low-Cost Airline for the eighth year running.

It lifted the awards once again at the 2016 Skytrax World Airline Awards, dubbed the 'Oscars of the Aviation Industry', at the Farnborough International Airshow in the United Kingdom.

The Skytrax Awards are the global benchmark of airline excellence with over 19 million customers from 104 nationalities surveyed worldwide, measuring standards across 41 key performance indicators of an airline's frontline products and services.

AirAsia also announced at Farnborough that is has agreed to buy 100 A321neos from Airbus in order to meet rising demand.