AVIATION WEEK Announces Leading Airline Industry Rankings: 2009 Top-Performing Companies Singapore Airlines, Lufthansa, Malaysia Airlines identified as top carriers

1. Air Arabia
2. Allegiant
3. Air Mauritius
4. Aegean Airlines
5. Copa Holdings, S.A.
6. Ryanair Holdings plc
7. Transat A.T. Inc.
8. WestJet Airlines Ltd.
9. easyJet plc
10. Southwest Airlines Co.
    

FedEx Corp. is the highest-ranked freight carrier, and Regional Express Holdings Ltd. is the top regional carrier.

Launched in 1996, AVIATION WEEK’s TPC Study identifies relative strengths and weaknesses in companies’ operational performance and evaluates how well they are executing business strategies. For the second year in a row, separate studies were conducted on the A&D and airline sectors. Proprietary metrics have been refined over the past 13 years with input from industry leaders to include scores in five performance categories: Liquidity, Financial Health, Earnings Performance, Fuel Cost Management, and Asset Utilization. The benchmarking tool and microsite are produced in partnership with PricewaterhouseCoopers.

For the ranking tables and more information, visit http://aviationweek.com/tpc. For further commentary on the airlines study, contact Adrian Schofield at Adrian_Schofield@aviationweek.com, and for general questions about TPC, contact Joseph Anselmo at Joe_Anselmo@aviationweek.com.

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