Shanghai Hongqiao wins three anna.aero Asia-Pacific 2011 ANNIES for Route Development Excellence

Feb. 11, 2011 - PRLog -- (London, UK, 28 January 2011 – www.anna.aero) The Airline and Airport News & Analysis website anna.aero has awarded Shanghai Hongqiao Airport with a record three anna.aero Asia-Pacific ANNIE 2011 Prizes:

•   Airport with the most new routes
•   Airport with the most new carriers
•   Airport traffic growth award (Over 20 million annual passengers)

Shanghai’s Hongqiao airport started 14 new destinations in 2010 leading it to also collect the most new carriers: TransAsia, EVA Air, China Airlines, Hong Kong Airlines, Air Macau, Hebei Airlines and Dragonair. As a consequence Shanghai Hongqiao also excelled in the Airport traffic growth awards by growing 30.2% to 31.3 million passengers.
“The importance of the anna.aero Annie Prizes are their basis on science, statistics and evidence rather than merely the opinions of a panel of judges or votes. Using OAG schedule data for almost 1,000 airports and over 200 airlines operating in the Asia-Pacific region, our team of data experts have pored over the figures and come up with a transparent way of rewarding airlines and airports that have achieved notable route and traffic related success during the last year,” said anna.aero Editor Ralph Anker, himself a former route planner with the European low cost airline easyJet.

For full details of Shanghai Hongqiao Airport’s awards and the other prize winners visit

http://www.anna.aero/2011/01/26/the-asia-pacific-region-g...

(You can also search the anna.aero site for images and analysis of these Shanghai Hongqiao route launches.)


Notes for editors:

anna.aero (an acronym of Airport Network News & Analysis) is a leading airline route planning website featuring all new airline routes every week and visited by 60,000 airline and airport executives worldwide.


Paul J. Hogan
Publisher
anna.aero
paul.hogan@anna.aero
Tel + 44 1293 783851 (London/Gatwick office)

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