{"id":198341,"date":"2025-04-10T12:44:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T02:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=198341"},"modified":"2025-04-10T14:48:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T04:48:55","slug":"melbourne-airport-has-been-voted-the-best-airport-in-australia-and-the-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=198341","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne Airport has been voted the best airport in Australia and the Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Melbourne Tullamarine has been voted the best airport in Australia and the Pacific at the Skytrax World Airport Award for the third time in a row.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s also the fifth time in six years Melbourne has taken home the prize, with previous wins in 2020 and 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The awards held in Madrid are judged by a customer satisfaction survey that assesses more than 565 airports across the globe. Melbourne Airport CEO Lorie Argus said the hard work of airport staff was a key a factor in the win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine how much better it will be with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=40252\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"How trying to build a train to Melbourne Airport turned into a 60-year odyssey with no end in sight\">train to the Airport from Melbourne<\/a> and regional Victorian cities.  The saga of a train to the Melbourne Airport should never have happened.  It should have been built years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=191991\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Why we need a train to Avalon Airport\">Avalon Airport is also an opportunity<\/a> for passenger rail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s also the fifth time in six years Melbourne has taken home the prize, with previous wins in 2020 and 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":198342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,513,47],"tags":[993,10958,16288,16287,8],"class_list":["post-198341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-melbourne-airport","category-rail-news","tag-melbourne","tag-melbourne-airport-rail-link","tag-skytrax","tag-skytrax-world-airport-award","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198360,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198341\/revisions\/198360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/198342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}