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Red carpet\u2026\u201cA-List\u201d celebrities\u2026paparazzi\u2026free swag\u2026Joan Rivers\u2026late night after parties. These are the many things you will not see at the annual OAG Airline Industry Awards. London-based OAG, which collects and distributes aviation related data, presented the 27th annual \u201cOscars of the Airline Industry\u201d for 2009 and here are some of the big winners:<\/p>\n
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OAG Airline of the Year 2009<\/strong>: Singapore Airlines (Runners-up: British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Emirates, Virgin Atlantic)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Best Airline based in North America<\/strong>: Continental Airlines (Runners-up: Air Canada, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Best Transatlantic Airline<\/strong>: Virgin Atlantic (Runners-up: British Airways, Continental Airlines, Lufthansa, United Airlines)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Best Economy\/Coach Class<\/strong>: British Airways (Runners-up: American Airlines, Continental Airlines, Korean Air, Singapore Airlines)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Best Executive\/Business Class<\/strong>: Continental Airlines (Runners-up:\u00a0 British Airways, Emirates, Singapore Airlines, Virgin Atlantic)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Best International First Class<\/strong>: Singapore Airlines (Runners-up: American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Emirates)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Best International First Class<\/strong>: Singapore Airlines (Runners-up: American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Emirates)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Best Airport<\/strong>: Singapore Changi (Runners-up: Amsterdam Schiphol, Dubai International, Kuala Lumpur International)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Source Associated Press and Picture courtesy of Flickr member PhillipC <\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Singapore Airlines was awarded best airline for 2009 by OAG Red carpet\u2026\u201cA-List\u201d celebrities\u2026paparazzi\u2026free swag\u2026Joan Rivers\u2026late night after parties. These are the many things you will not see at the annual OAG Airline Industry Awards. London-based OAG, which collects and distributes aviation related data, presented the 27th annual \u201cOscars of the Airline Industry\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":97218287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97168057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97168057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97168057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97168057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97218288,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97168057\/revisions\/97218288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97218287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97168057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97168057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97168057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}