The Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (AATT) has an­nounced that the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port has topped the re­gion as the Best Air­port in the Caribbean, as de­clared by the Sky­trax World Air­port Awards for 2020 to 2021.

Fur­ther to this, in re­la­tion to the Glob­al Re­gion – Cen­tral Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean, the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port has al­so been ranked by Sky­trax as the Third Best Air­port, edged out on­ly by Pana­ma’s Toc­u­men In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port and Cos­ta Ri­ca’s San Jose In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port, re­spec­tive­ly.

An­oth­er sig­nif­i­cant achieve­ment is the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port’s top place as the Caribbean’s clean­est air­port, sec­ond to Pana­ma’s Toc­u­men in the Cen­tral Amer­i­ca & Caribbean cat­e­go­ry.

“This is par­tic­u­lar­ly en­cour­ag­ing as the Au­thor­i­ty has im­ple­ment­ed stricter clean­ing, dis­in­fec­tion and san­i­ti­za­tion process­es to en­sure a safe en­vi­ron­ment for all air­port users, in the face of the Covid-19 pan­dem­ic,” an AATTstate­ment said.

AATT Gen­er­al Man­ag­er, Hay­den New­ton said he be­lieves that these ac­com­plish­ments were as a re­sult of the re­newed thrust of the Au­thor­i­ty to re­alise cer­tain strate­gic ob­jec­tives.

“We have placed great fo­cus on safe­ty and in­no­va­tion to en­hance the cus­tomer ex­pe­ri­ence at our air­port fa­cil­i­ties. These awards prove that our ef­forts are bear­ing fruit and giv­ing us com­pet­i­tive ad­van­tage”.

Sky­trax World Air­port Awards are the most pres­ti­gious ac­co­lades for the air­port in­dus­try. This in­de­pen­dent glob­al cus­tomer sat­is­fac­tion sur­vey is con­sid­ered a bench­mark of qual­i­ty stan­dards for the avi­a­tion sec­tor. It as­sess­es cus­tomer ser­vice and air­port in­fra­struc­ture of over five hun­dred and fifty air­ports world­wide.

AATT said it is spurred on by these achieve­ments to con­tin­ue to pro­vide a safe and cus­tomer cen­tric ex­pe­ri­ence at our air­port fa­cil­i­ties.

“With the re­open­ing of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s bor­ders on 17th Ju­ly, 2021, AATT re­it­er­ates the com­mit­ment to en­sur­ing the de­liv­ery of even high­er stan­dards of cus­tomer ser­vice and op­er­a­tional ef­fi­cien­cy at both the Pi­ar­co and ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­ports, and in so do­ing make its con­tri­bu­tion to the at­trac­tive­ness of des­ti­na­tion Trinidad & To­ba­go,” the state­ment said.