South African Airways wins travel excellence awards

South African Airways (SAA) has been awarded “Best Airline in Africa” and “Best Business Class to Africa” by top US travel magazine, Business Traveler.

South African Airways was selected among a variety of top travel products and services for the quality awards by readers of the US based magazine, and were presented to SAA at a ceremony on 8 January at the Loews Hollywood Hotel in Hollywood, CA. 

The recognition comes to add to Skytrax’s naming of SAA as the “Best Airline in Africa” for the 12th consecutive year.

"It is a distinguished honour to receive these awards and we thank all Business Traveler’s readers who chose us as their favourite airline in Africa,” says SAA Acting Chief Executive, Nico Bezuidenhout.

“This further demonstrates SAA’s commitment to excellence and reinforces our belief, in keeping with our Long-Term Turnaround Strategy, that an outstanding customer experience is what makes a great airline.” by any 

South African Airways offers the most flights from the U.S. to South Africa with daily nonstop service from New York-JFK Airport and daily direct service from Washington, DC-Dulles Airport to Johannesburg.