World’s Safest Airlines named for 2019

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Qantas has been nominated the world’s safest airline for 2019 by AirlineRatings.com,  the world’s only safety, and product rating website.

AirlineRatings.com  also announced its Top Twenty safest airlines and ten safest low-cost airlines for 2019 from the 405 it monitors.
In making its evaluation,  AirlineRatings.com takes into account a comprehensive range of factors that include: audits from aviation’s governing and industry bodies; government audits; airline’s crash and serious incident record; profitability, industry-leading safety initiatives, and fleet age.

In selecting Qantas as the world’s safest airline for 2019,  AirlineRatings.com editors noted that over its 98-year history the world’s oldest continuously operating airline has amassed an amazing record of firsts in operations and safety and is now accepted as the industry’s most experienced airline. *


The Australian airline has been a leader in the development of: Future Air Navigation System; the flight data recorder to monitor plane and later crew performance; automatic landings using Global Navigation Satellite System as well as precision approaches around mountains in cloud using RNP.  Qantas was the lead airline with real-time monitoring of its engines across its fleet using satellite communications, which has enabled the airline to detect problems before they become a major safety issue.
Australia’s Qantas has continued its extraordinary safety record of no fatalities – or hull losses – in the jet era as it enters its 99th year. But Qantas’s safety record goes much further than the headline of being named the World’s Safest Airline for 2019. Over its 98-year history, Qantas has amassed an amazing record of firsts in safety and operations. In 2008, in a successful defence to the British Advertising Standards Association of its claim that it is the world’s most experienced airline, Qantas was able to list almost 30 notable industry-leading achievements. These included the wartime operation from Perth, Australia of what was then, and still is, the world’s longest air route by elapsed time. The flight from Perth to Colombo, Sri Lanka, saw passengers given an award dubbed “The Order of the Double Sunrise.”

THE TOP 20 SAFEST AIRLINES FOR 2019

These are in alphabetical order:
Air New Zealand,
Alaska Airlines,
All Nippon Airways,
American Airlines,
Austrian Airlines,
British Airways,
Cathay Pacific Airways,
Emirates,
EVA Air,
Finnair,
Hawaiian Airlines,
KLM,
Lufthansa,
Qantas,
Qatar,
Scandinavian Airline System,
Singapore Airlines,
Swiss, and
United Airlines,
and the Virgin group of airlines (Atlantic and 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.

TOP 10 SAFEST LOW-COST AIRLINES FOR 2019

Responding to the public interest, the AirlineRatings.com editors also identified their Top 10 safest low-cost airlines.

These are in alphabetical order:
Flybe,
Frontier,
HK Express,
Jetblue,
Jetstar Australia / Asia,
Thomas Cook,
Volaris,
Vueling,
Westjet and
Wizz.
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 Twenty,  AirlineRatings.com takes into account the most important factors for safety. These include audits from aviation’s governing bodies and lead associations; government audits; airline’s crash and serious incident record; and the fleet age.


The annual Boeing Statistical Summary of Commercial Jet Airplane Accidents Worldwide Operations 1959-2018 lists the following aircraft as having a fatality free record:

Boeing 717 (formerly the MD95),
CRJ 700 / 900 / 1000 regional jet,
A380 Superjumbo,
Boeing 787,
Boeing 747-8,
Airbus A350,
Bombardier C Series,
A340 and the
Airbus A320 NEO series.


It should be noted that the C Series and A320NEO have only recently started deliveries so the in-service numbers are small.


Other aircraft that have excellent safety records are the
Boeing 737 MAX with 0.01 fatal crashes per one million departures, the
Boeing 737NG series (0.08), the
Boeing 767 (0.10), the
Airbus A320 series (0.10), the
Boeing 777 (0.18), the
Boeing 757 (0.20) and the
Airbus A330 (0.19).


These accident rates are a fraction of those recorded by the first jets such as the Boeing 707, which has a fatal crash rate of 4.28 per million departures.
Even the early models of the mighty 747 had a crash rate of 1.46.

“All airlines have incidents every day and many are aircraft manufacture issues, not airline operational problems. “It is the way the flight crew handles incidents that determines a good airline from an unsafe one. So just lumping all incidents together is very misleading.”
“And some countries incident reporting systems are weak further complicating matters.”

AirlineRatings.com also announced its lowest ranked (one and two stars) airlines which are:
Ariana Afghan Airlines,
Bluewing Airlines,
Kam Air, and
Trigana Air Service.


AirlineRatings was launched in June 2013 and rates the safety and in-flight product of 405 airlines using its unique seven-star rating system. It has been used by millions of passengers from 232 countries and has become the industry standard for safety and product rating. The editorial team is one of the world’s most experienced with almost 50 international and national awards. They have also authored or co-authored more than 28 industry books.


Story sourced from here
https://www.airlineratings.com/news/worlds-safest-airlines-named-for-2019/