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March 4, 2008

Top Ten List: Fortune’s “Most Admired Airlines”

Fortune just released their annual list of the “Most Admired Companies.” In order to compile this list, “Fortune and its survey partners at Hay Group asked the experts — in this case, more than 3,700 people from dozens of industries — to select the 10 companies they admire most.” In this case, they admired Apple most of all. While the most admired airline (Southwest) ranked #12 overall and was the only carrier to crack the top 20, the folks over at the Dallas Morning News’ Airline Biz compiled a list of the top 10 airlines based on Fortune’s rankings. Keep reading to see who challenged Southwest for the top spot and who has got to make up some ground in the upcoming year…

Top 10 Most Admired Airlines and their Overall Scores:

1. Southwest Airlines 8.02
2. Continental Airlines 7.8
3. Alaska Air Group 5.81
4. JetBlue Airways 5.25
5. AMR 5.2
6. Delta Air Lines 5.04
7. SkyWest 4.62
8. Northwest Airlines 4.55
9. US Airways Group 4.54
10. UAL 4.52