The world's 20 best airports

The survey's criteria include terminal comfort, ease of access, staff language skills, wait times, and public transportation options. (Photo: Frankfurt Main Airport; Flickr/D Petzold)

20. Sydney Airport

Serving Australia's largest city, the three-terminal Sydney Airport completed a $500 million redevelopment in 2010. (Photo: Flickr/Pedro Szekely)

19. Kansai International Airport

Located in Japan's Osaka Prefecture, Kansai opened in 1994. It's 1.7-km long Terminal 1 is among the longest in the world. (Photo: Flickr/Hideyuki Kamon)

18. Abu Dhabi International Airport

The capital city of the United Arab Emirates is served by the rapidly-expanding Abu Dhabi International Airport, currently undergoing a multi-billion dollar redevelopment and expansion. (Photo: Wikimedia/Nuno Nogueira)

17. Narita International Airport

Narita is the primary passenger airport in and around Tokyo, handling the majority of international flights in and out of Japan. (Photo: Flickr/Hideyuki Kamon)

16. Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport

Hongqiao is the primary domestic airport serving Shanghai. While less glamorous than Pudong, the city's primary international port, it was recently the beneficiary of an expansion worth more than $2 billion. (Photo: Flickr/Thomas Depenbusch)

15. Frankfurt Main Airport

Frankfurt Airport is far and away the busiest passenger airport in Germany, and third-busiest in Europe behind only Heathrow and Paris-Charles de Gaulle. It handles international flights and connections from all around the world. (Photo: Flickr/Christian Bortes)

14. Tokyo International Airport Haneda

More centrally-located than Narita, Haneda primarily handles domestic Japanese traffic to the capital city. (Photo: Flickr/Hideyuki Kamon)

13. Auckland International Airport

New Zealand's largest airport was named the best airport in the Australia/Pacific region by the survey, and its staff was also considered the best in the region. (Photo: Flickr/Phillip Capper)

12. Copenhagen Airport

The Danish capital's airport was named the best in Northern Europe, and handles more international traffic than any other in Scandinavia. It set a record in 2012 with over 23.3 million passengers. (Photo: Wikimedia/Dornum72)

11. London Heathrow Airport

The third-busiest airport in the world is a five-terminal behemoth directly employing over 76,000 people. (Photo: Wikimedia/Cdogg30)

10. Central Japan International Airport

Built on an artificial island in Ise Bay in the Chūbu region of Japan, Central Japan International was named the best regional airport in Asia. (Photo: Flickr/Masakazu Matsumoto)

9. Vancouver International Airport

Serving Canada's West Coast metropolis, Vancouver International is the only North American airport to make SKYTRAX's top 20. The organization's chairman commended it for its excellent standards of terminal decor and ambience. (Photo: Flickr/Jeff McNeill)

8. Kuala Lumpur International Airport

Malaysia's primary international airport was commended for having the world's best airport immigration service. (Photo: Flickr/Hunny Alrohaif)

7. Zurich Airport

Switzerland's largest international airport was awarded "World's Best Airport Baggage Delivery" by the SKYTRAX survey. (Photo: Flickr/Jon Rawlinson)

6. Munich Airport

Munich Airport doubled its traffic over the late-90s and early-00s, and is now the second-busiest in Germany. The survey called its dining options the best in the world, and placed it fifth for leisure amenities. (Photo: Flickr/JasonParris)

5. Beijing Capital International Airport

As of 2012, Beijing Capital is the second-busiest airport in the world, in terms of passenger throughput. Built for the 2008 Olympic Games, Terminal 3 is the fifth-largest building in the world by area. (Photo: Wikimedia/Vladimir Menkov)

4. Amsterdam Airport Schiphol

The largest airport in the Netherlands features extensive shopping options, a permanent library, an art gallery and even a mortuary. The SKYTRAX survey named it the best airport in Europe. (Photo: Wikimedia/Shirley de Jong)

3. Hong Kong International Airport

Hong Kong's primary airport is the busiest in the world, by cargo traffic. It ranked in the top five in dining, international transit, shopping, cleanliness and leisure amenities. (Photo: Flickr/charclam)

2. Singapore Changi Airport

Singapore's main airport has won countless awards as one of the best in the world. With endless shopping, six open-air gardens, gyms, spas and napping areas, its leisure amenities were ranked best in the world by the survey.

1. Incheon International Airport

With a golf course, spa, casino, museum, and more, Seoul's Incheon International was named the best airport in the world by SKYTRAX. It was also named best in the world for seven consecutive years by Airports Council International.

Click next to find out the world's most safest and unsafe airlines.

Finnair has been rated the safest airline in the world, based on the study that monitors plane crashes around the world. (Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images)

Air New Zealand has been rated as the world's second safest airline. (Photo by Phil Walter/Getty Images)

According to the report, none of the top nine ranked airlines had lost an aircraft or had a fatality during the 30-year period. Cathay Pacific is ranked at No.3 in terms of safety. (Photo by Christian Keenan/Getty Images)

Dubai-based Emirates Airline is ranked at No.4 for safety. (Photo by Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images)

Another airline from the United Arab Emirates; Abu Dhabi-based Etihad airways comes in next in the rankings. (AFP PHOTO / ALEXANDER KLEIN)

Rank 6: EVA Air is an airline based in Taiwan, operating passenger and dedicated cargo services to over 40 international destinations in Asia, Australia, Europe and North America. It is the second largest Taiwanese airline, next in size to its main rival, China Airlines. (AFP PHOTO/PATRICK LIN)

Rank 7: TAP Portugal, founded 1945 as Transportes Aéreos Portugueses, SGPS, S.A., commonly known as TAP, is the national airline of Portugal. (REUTERS/Rafael Marchante)

Rank 8: Hainan Airlines is the largest privately owned air transport company and the fourth largest airline in terms of fleet size in the People's Republic of China. It operates scheduled domestic and international services on 500 routes from Hainan and nine locations on the mainland, as well as charter services. (AFP PHOTO/GOH CHAI HIN)

Rank 9. Virgin Australia: formerly Virgin Blue Airlines, is Australia's second-largest airline as well as the largest by fleet size to use the Virgin brand. Now based in Bowen Hills, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, the airline was co-founded by British businessman Sir Richard Branson and former Virgin Blue CEO Brett Godfrey. It was established in 2000 with two aircraft operating on a single route, and suddenly found itself catapulted to the position of Australia's second airline after the collapse of Ansett Australia in September 2001. The airline has grown to directly serve 29 cities in Australia from hubs in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, using a fleet of narrow-body Boeing and Embraer jets; and Airbus and Boeing widebody jets. (Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images)

British Airways has been ranked as the tenth safest airline in the world.

Click on next to see the ten unsafest airlines in the world

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Rank 52. South African Airways is ranked as the ninth unsafe airline to fly with. South African Airways (SAA) is the national flag carrier and largest airline of South Africa. (AFP PHOTO -AIRBUS /PASCAL PAVANI/pp)

Ranked eighth in the unsafe list is Thai Airways. Overall, it is ranked 53rd. (Photo by Chumsak Kanoknan/Getty Images)

Ranked at No.54 is Turkish Airlines is the national flag carrier airline of Turkey. (Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images)

Rank 55: Saudi Arabian Airlines operating as Saudia is the flag carrier airline of Saudi Arabia, based in Jeddah. The airline reverted to its abbreviated English brand name Saudia (used from 1972 to 1996) from Saudi Arabian Airlines (historic name in use until 1971 and reintroduced in 1997) on 29 May 2012. (AFP PHOTO/ ASIF) HASSAN

According to the survey, the world’s fifth-dangerous airline in terms of flying safety is Korean Air. Korean Air Lines Co is both the flag carrier and the largest airline of South Korea, with global headquarters located in, Seoul, South Korea. (Photo by Kim Dong-Hoon/Getty Images)

Among the total 60 carriers ranked, GOL Transportes Aéreos stands at No. 57. Gol is a Brazilian low-cost airline based in Comandante Lineu Gomes Square, São Paulo, Brazil. (Getty Images)

Indian-carrier Air India is ranked at No. 58, or the third unsafest airline in the world to travel. (AFP PHOTO / Sam PANTHAKY)

Rank 59: TAM Airlines is the Brazilian brand of LATAM Airlines Group. JACDEC calculates its annual rankings based on aircraft loss accidents and serious incidents over the past 30 years. The resulting index relates that information to the revenue per passenger kilometer (rpk) earned by the airline over the same period. (Getty Images)

The unsafest airline in the world is China Airlines, according to JACDEC. According to the report, there were 496 fatalities on commercial passenger flights last year, two fewer than in 2011. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)