Online poll by Smart Travel Asia magazine rates SpiceJet high.

New Delhi, September 07, 2010: SpiceJet, India’s most preferred low fare airline features in the Top 5 list of the ‘Best Budget Airlines in Asia’, in the SmartTravelAsia ‘Best in Travel Poll’, 2010.

This worldwide online survey looks at the most outstanding travel products, as voted by global readers of online magazine SmartTravelAsia.com. This is the third successive year that India’s most preferred airline, SpiceJet, has received this recognition. This year SpiceJet has moved from being the 9th Best Budget Airline in 2009 to becoming the 5th Best Budget Airline in Asia. This year’s SmartTravelAsia consumer poll was conducted between May and July 2010 and involved the participation of genuine travelers with knowledge and passion to make critical judgments.

Receiving the award Kishore Gupta, Director, SpiceJet Limited said, “We are delighted to be ranked among the top 10 Budget Airlines in Asia for the third time in a row and are happy to have our services rated highly by travelers. A focus on customer needs and acting on customer feedback, dedicated team-members at work and a commitment to maintaining a lower cost of operations have helped us to provide safe, reliable and quality air transport to deliver superior service experience.”

SmartTravelAsia is the only dedicated online travel magazine for Asia. It is read by over 1,000,000 visitors annually. The unique online poll is democratic and global. The voting reflects a combination of actual experience, word-of-mouth and an idea of the brand drawn from advertising and editorial in the media, much of which is online.