While SA has the pommies on our side, data highlighted that Saffas specifically rated Perth as their favourite city and Australia as their preferred country, while global travellers rated Perth as the best city in the world to visit and Portugal as the most preferred country.

Globally, when it came to cities, Perth’s satisfaction rating of 96% was closely followed by Brisbane and Queenstown, both at 94%. Regarding countries, Portugal earned first place at 94%, with the Cook Islands and Australia not far behind at 93% and 92%, respectively.

Airlink, South African Airways and FlySafair had satisfaction ratings of 89%, 87%, and 86%, respectively, while internationally, Singapore Airlines won gold with 86%, followed by Emirates and Airlink, both with 85%.

Flight Centre Global Managing Director Andrew Stark noted how some of the surprising results “go to show it’s not always the traditionally popular destinations that have something special to offer travellers”.

[source:iol]