Finnair gets four-star rating

HELSINKI - Skytrax, the international airline survey website, has awarded Nordic carrier Finnair a four-star rating, it was announced here Tuesday.

‘The four-star rating and the ‘Quality Approved by Skytrax’ designation make a global statement about Finnair as a quality company,’ Markku Remes, responsible for the airlines’ passenger experience development, said in a statement.

Skytrax is a highly regarded research company that assesses commercial airlines and their services. Skytrax publishes and compares the results of its airline service surveys at the website www.airlinequality.com. The site uses star ratings to describe the service quality levels of different airlines.

Skytrax auditors sampled 22 Finnair flights in Europe and Asia in December 2008, assessing about 750 different details of Finnair service on every flight, the airline statement said.