PETALING JAYA: Malaysia’s airport immigration service has been named the best in the world by airline passengers. The Skytrax World Airport Awards, also known as the Passengers Choice Awards, ranked Kuala Lumpur International Airport’s (KLIA) immigration service as first in the world, beating Hong Kong International Airport (ranked second), and Tokyo International Airport (Haneda) at third place. Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 (KLIA2) was ranked third best Low-Cost Airline Terminal, although it was described as Kuala Lumpur’s Low Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT), while Tokyo Narita Airport’s Terminal 3 was named No 1. Kuala Lumpur also ranked seventh in having the world’s best airport staff, just below Japan’s Kansai International Airport at No 6 and ahead of Tokyo Narita International Airport at No 8. Taiwan’s Taoyuan International Airport was No 1 for best airport staff.

Source: thestar March 15, 2017 06:22 UTC