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Airservices Australia voted World’s Best air traffic control provider by International Airlines - 08/05
Airservices Australia is today considered the world’s best provider of air navigation services after it won the prestigious International Air Transport Association (IATA) “Eagle Award” for 2005.
IATA, the peak worldwide association of airlines, announced the award, the second for the corporation, today at its Annual General Meeting in Tokyo, Japan, before more than 200 chairmen, chief executives, and managing directors of the world’s international airlines and affiliated aviation businesses.
Airservices Australia’s Chairman, Nick Burton Taylor AM, said IATA had recognised the corporation for its continuing commitment to its airline customers by developing and implementing a unique long term pricing agreement that provides customers with price certainty over the next five years.
"It is also recognises the significant value we are adding, and the costs we are reducing, through flexible tracking, new routing arrangements, airspace harmonisation, and the implementation of a myriad of other procedures and processes designed to assist airlines fulfil on time performance safely, effectively and efficiently,” Mr Burton Taylor said.
Corporation Acting Chief Executive Officer, Hisham El-Ansary, in accepting the award said “it is the finest recognition any supplier to the world’s airline industry can hope to secure…and is testimony to the mutual respect we hold for each other”.
“It is also well justified recognition for the efforts of the corporation’s 3,000 staff who are always on the look out for new, safer and more efficient ways of doing things. We are very much partners in the quest with airlines to improve service levels to the travelling public” he said.
“I am incredibly proud of their efforts and the fact that, as the only air navigation service provider in the world to have won this prestigious award twice, we have clearly not been complacent since our first award in 1999,” Mr El-Ansary said.