Asiana Airlines (아시아나항공. Asiana Airlines is the world's leading airline and has been ranked as a five-star airline by SKYTRAX for four consecutive years. In 2009, the airline was named "Airline of the Year 2009" by ATW, the Nobel Prize in the airline industry, and became the only airline to receive the highest awards from ATW and SKYTRAX for two consecutive years. Asiana Airlines was founded on February 17, 1988 and joined in 2003.