Business travellers award highest marks to Lufthansa on three counts.Readers of the prestigious Business Traveller Deutschland magazine have voted Lufthansa the safest airline in 2001.

In both categories - national / European and international flights - Lufthansa came out best in the magazine poll. The magazine readers also awarded top marks to the airline's website (www.lufthansa.com) as the best business travel portal.

The Business Traveller Awards were presented at the Arabella Sheraton Hotel in Frankfurt/Main.

The magazine survey sounding the views of 3,000 readers on a cluster of companies in the tourist business was conducted by an independent market research institute. Lufthansa also landed the "safest airline" award in the magazine poll last year.

In January, the "Manager Magazin" business periodical chose Lufthansa as the preeminent German company in the transport and tourist industry. The accolade endorsing the airline's excellent image came from 2,500 selected jurors adjudicating in the poll.