Singapore does the 2025 encore: it's still the world's best airport. But in Skytrax's ranking, something (big) doesn't add up
Rome Fiumicino increasingly launched into the Olympus of the world's best airports
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There is Asia at the top of Skytrax's list of the 100 Best Airports of 2026.
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The British rating agency unveiled its rankings and awarded its prizes at a ceremony held in London last night that saw Singapore Changi triumph as the world's best airport, ahead of Seoul Incheon and Tokyo Haneda.
The two positions at the foot of the podium were occupied by two other Asian airports, Hong Kong International and Tokyo Narita, but from there down there is a lot of Europe, with Paris Charles De Gaulle before Rome Fiumicino, Istanbul and Munich. Rounding out the top 10 is Vancouver.
If the leading positions are not surprising, there are at least three things that strike the observer: the absence of Doha Hamad, which last year qualified second overall and was awarded the world's best airport in 2024.
Fiumicino's extraordinary seventh-place finish, gaining one more position over 2025 And is now firmly in the global elite.
And the ninth place assigned to Monaco, even after the disasters of the passengers abandoned to sleep on the ground a few weeks ago for the cancellation of some flights due to the night curfew coming into effect, and the even more absurd case of the Passengers on five flights forced a few days ago for the same reason to spend the night on the plane. Stuff, that of Munich, third world aviation, not Skytrax top 10.
Truth be told, scrolling through the ranking of the 100 best airports on the planet reveals that Doha just isn't there, and one wonders what they did over there to deserve such a bad end. Or, perhaps, Skytrax people forgot it off the list? (Like, oops, sorry for the oversight).
There is not a single other single Italian airport in the top 100. Now, it is true that the boot is certainly not part of the 'first world' of air transport but, scrolling through the names of the airports on the list, one wonders why at least Milan Linate is not in the game... In short, with all due respect to Skytrax and the undoubted merit of Singapore's leadership, it seems legitimate in the face of this ranking to raise an eyebrow.
