Singapore Changi Airport is the Best in the World

Changi Airport

The Changi Airport in Singapore gets "Best Airport in the World" title again - three times in-a-row.

Changi Airport has earned the World's Best Airport title at the annual SkyTrax World Airport Awards, which were announced Wednesday in Paris.

"It is a great honor to be named World's Best Airport by SkyTrax for the third year running," airport CEO Lee Seow Hiang told SkyTrax. "This recognition is particularly pleasing for us as it comes at a time of transformation at Changi Airport."

According to Wikipedia:

The airport, operated by the Changi Airport Group, is the home base of Singapore Airlines, Singapore Airlines Cargo, SilkAir, Scoot, Tigerair and Jetstar Asia Airways. As of December 2014, Changi Airport serves more than 100 airlines operating 6,500 weekly flights connecting Singapore to 300 cities in about 80 countries and territories worldwide.[4] An important contributor to the economy of Singapore, more than 40,000 people are employed at the airport, which accounts for about 6% of the country's GDP.

Additionally, Changi also won the award for best airport for leisure activities.  You definitely want to plan for an extra long connect time when you fly through Singapore.  An airport such as Changi can be a tourist destination by itself, seriously.

Just name a few of attractions you will see at this marvelous airport, make you wish your local airport learn a thing or two.  There is a butterfly garden with 1,000 free roaming butterflies which is also great opportunity to snap photos.  You will also find a movie theater that operates 24 hours a day.  For the young ones, there is the tallest indoor slide inside the airport.  Best of all, all these attractions are free for all.

If you decided to stay around the airport for a night, don't forget to check out Crowne Plaza Changi which just won the best airport hotel in the world title.

Incheon Airport

Incheon International Airport near Seoul has secured the 2nd spot for the beset airport in the world list, also for the third year running.

Here are the top 10 airports in the world.  It's very sad to see that not a single airport from the U.S. made to the top 10 list.  In fact, 6 of the top 10 are from Asian countries, and the other 4 are from western Europe:

1. Singapore Changi Airport

2. Incheon International Airport

3. Munich Airport

4. Hong Kong International Airport

5. Tokyo International Airport (Haneda)

6. Zurich Airport

7. Central Japan International Airport

8. London Heathrow Airport

9. Amsterdam Schiphol Airport

10. Beijing Capital International Airport