Global Traveller's annual GT Tested Award is one of the world's most comprehensive business and leisure traveller polls, showcasing the best and brightest in airlines, hotels, destinations and travel service providers, as voted by magazine readers, says a press release.

The airline also recently got 'Best Business Class to the Middle East' award by Business Traveller readers in the 2006 Readers' Choice Best in Business Travel Awards as well as 'Best Airline for Flights to the Middle East' from Executive Travel magazine's 2006 Leading Edge Awards readers' survey.

Nigel Page, Emirates' senior vice president, said customer service has always played an important role in the growth of the airline and these awards serve as significant validation from the discerning first and business travelling community.