OREANDA-NEWS. November 18, 2011. Jet Airways, India’s premier international airline, has been declared the ‘Best Domestic Airline’ at the fifth edition of the CNBC Awaaz Travel Awards 2011.

The award was presented by Shri Subodh Kant Sahay, Honourable Union Minister for Tourism to Mr. Gaurang Shetty, Senior Vice President- Commercial, Jet Airways at a glittering ceremony in New Delhi yesterday, in the presence of several luminaries from the travel and trade industry.

These Awards, based on an exhaustive consumer response study conducted across eleven cities, with close to two thousand respondents across all segments (including the Adventure, General public and Corporate segments), seek to recognize and honour the best in class destinations, organizations, infrastructure and service providers based on an objective study conducted by India’s leading research firm, Nielsen.

Mr. Sudheer Raghavan, Chief Commercial Officer, Jet Airways, said: “The CNBC Awaaz Travel Awards 2011 are widely respected across the tourism and trade industry and we are delighted to receive this honour. At Jet Airways, we are committed to offering our guests the very best travel experience in the skies, and awards such as these stand testimony to the quality of our services and encourage us to further raise the bar in customer service excellence.”

The airline was previously awarded ‘Airline with the Best Business Class’ and 'Airline with the Best Economy Class’ at the CNBC Awaaz Travel Awards 2008, in the Airlines of India Category.

The CNBC Awaaz Travel Awards are an annual event hosted by CNBC AWAAZ, India's first business and consumer-focused Hindi channel, to honor the best in class travel destinations and other ancillary services of the tourism industry.