Lufthansa, Air France/KLM or IAG? Which major group has the best hubs according to Skytrax
The 2025 edition of the Skytrax Airport Awards crowned Singapore Changi as the world's No. 1 airport. It also reaffirmed [...]
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The 2025 edition of the Skytrax Airport Awards crowned Singapore Changi as the world's No. 1 airport. It also reaffirmed 'Asian superiority' in this sector, with six ports of call from that continent occupying the top six spots in the top 10. And it demonstrated once again how Rome Fiumicino is now firmly part of the world's airport elite.
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However, the Skytrax ranking lends itself to further analysis.
The most interesting, looking not too far from our home, is to see How the big three European airline groups rank in this ranking (the Lufthansa Group, the International Airlines Group-IAG and Air France/KLM) Considering how their hubs ranked in the Skytrax rankings. and thus the level of efficiency and comfort those groups are able to offer on the ground to their passengers.
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The one positioned best of all seems to be the Lufthansa Group (which is good news for Italian passengers, given that For the past few weeks, ITA Airways has also been a member.), since well Three of its hubs are in the top 10 best airports in the world: Rome Fiumicino in eighth place, Munich (LH's 'secondary' hub) in ninth, and Zurich (Swiss) in tenth, with Vienna (Austrian Airlines) a little further back in fifteenth.
The result obtained by Fiumicino, yet another confirmation of the excellence of the Roman airport, should bode well for its future 'positioning' and role within the Group's chessboard of hubs. Which is somewhat ballasted by Frankfurt, which is ranked 37th in the (and which also 'suffers', at least for the moment, from A rather dated, locally based Lufthansa fleet) and by Brussels, which does not appear in Skytrax's top 100.
Air France/KLM group enjoys the European primacy of Paris Charles De Gaulle, which is also ranked seventh globally; Amsterdam Schipol (KLM's 'fort') took home a good 19th place (gaining, moreover, four positions from 2024), while Paris Orly, which is AF's hub leisure, placed in 30th position globally.
Less well are things going in the IAG house of which, we recall, British Airways, Aer Lingus, Iberia and Vueling are members: to find the top hub of the group here, one must scroll down the Skytrax rankings to 22nd place, where London Heathrow is (British Airways' main hub); a little further back, In 26th position, there is Madrid (the 'home' of Iberia) followed at 36th place from London Gatwick (which is BA's secondary and leisure hub); to unearth Barcelona (where Vueling leads the way) you have to scroll down the list to at #66, while Dublin (Aer Lingus hub) is near the bottom of the top 100, 99th position.
