Top 20 Safest Airlines For 2018

AirlineRatings.com, the world’s only safety and product rating website, has announced its Top 20 safest airlines for 2018 from the 409 it monitors.

THE TOP 20 SAFEST AIRLINES FOR 2018 ARE

(in alphabetical order) 

Air New Zealand,

Alaska Airlines,

All Nippon Airways,

British Airways,

Cathay Pacific Airways,

Emirates,

Etihad Airways,

EVA Air,

Finnair,

Hawaiian Airlines,

Japan Airlines,

KLM,

Lufthansa,

Qantas,

Royal Jordanian Airlines, 

Scandinavian Airline System,

Singapore Airlines,

Swiss,

Virgin Atlantic

and  Virgin Australia.

According to AirlineRatings.com Editor-in-Chief Geoffrey Thomas, these airlines are standouts in the industry and are at the forefront of safety, innovation, and launching of new aircraft.

“For instance, Australia’s Qantas has been recognized by the British Advertising Standards Association in a test case as the world’s most experienced airline.” Qantas has been the lead airline in virtually every major operational safety advancement over the past 60 years and has not had a fatality in the jet era,” said Mr. Thomas. “But Qantas is not alone. Long established airlines such as Hawaiian and Finnair have perfect records in the jet era.”

TOP 10 SAFEST LOW COST AIRLINES

Responding to the public interest, the AirlineRatings.com editors also identified their Top 10 safest low-cost airlines. These are in alphabetical order:

Aer Lingus,

Flybe,

Frontier,

HK Express,

Jetblue,

Jetstar Australia,

Thomas Cook,

Virgin America,

Vueling,

and Westjet.

Unlike a number of low-cost carriers, these airlines have all passed the stringent International Air Transport Association Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) and have excellent safety records.  To arrive at its Top 20 AirlineRatings.com takes into account the most important factors for safety that include; audits from aviation’s governing bodies and lead associations; government audits; airline’s crash and serious incident record and the fleet age.

AirlineRatings.com also announced its lowest ranked (one star) airlines which are;

Air Koryo,

Bluewing Airlines,

Buddha Air,

Nepal Airlines,

Tara Air,

Trigana Air Service

and Yeti Airlines.

It is good to see Australia's biggest three made it on the good list

Information sourced from here                                                                       https://www.airlineratings.com/news/top-20-safest-airlines-2018/