Emirates safest airline in the world
Research by the German Jet Airliner Crash Data Evaluation Center (JACDEC) shows that Emirates was the safest airline in the world in 2017. The Dutch airline KLM is in a creditable fourth place.
Emirates is the flag carrier of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The society was established in May 1985 by the government of the UAE. Emirates has shown very rapid growth. The airline has flights to many destinations in the Middle East, Asia, Europe, Africa, India, Oceania and North America.
Also striking is the second place for low-cost airline Norwegian Air Shuttle. The top 10 includes three airlines from the United Arab Emirates.
In total, 100 of the largest airlines were assessed for their safety. They were checked by JACDEC for 33 risk factors.
The top 20 safest airlines in 2017:
1. Emirates (VEA)
2. Norwegian Air Shuttle (Norway)
3. Virgin Atlantic Airways (Great Britain)
4. KLM (Netherlands)
5. Easyjet (Great Britain)
6. Finnair (Finland)
7. Etihad Airways (UAE)
8. Spirit Airlines (USA)
9. Jetstar Airways (Australia)
10. Air Arabia (UAE)
11. Vueling Airlines (Spain)
12. Cathay Pacific Airways (Hong Kong)
13. El Al (Israel)
14. Singapore Airlines (Singapore)
15.EVA Air (Taiwan)
16. Eurowings (Germany)
17. JetBlue Airways (USA)
18.Capital Airlines (China)
19. Oman Air (Oman)
20. Air Canada (Canada)
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No Thai Airways…no Lufthansa no swiss air and many other major airlines Well a few airlines I have never heard of.
Thailand Airways? After a lot of lobbying, these have received a flight permit to Europe last year. It didn't matter if they were blacklisted.
The EU now has I think 174 companies on the blacklist. Are they really that dangerous? Well, all those 174 airlines made it through 2017 without a single serious accident.
Just make up a few criteria, the European standard, which is not the same all over the world and you can be nicely protectionist under the guise of safety.
This may be a bit too much doom thinking, but it is striking that all airlines from Ukraine are on the black list of the USA, while the readers of this blog were cordially invited on January 4 to fly to Bangkok with Ukraine International , which then cheerfully states: “Ukraine International Airlines is a reliable and safe airline. The Austrian Austrian Airlines has a 49% interest in this airline, so that's good.”
They are having a hard time at JACDEC, due to the lack of decent crashes in 2017. To attract attention, they are now announcing the top 20, the remaining 80 (the number of companies has been increased from the 60 largest to the 100 largest) will be announced during announced in parts in the coming weeks.
The number of risk factors assessed has been increased from 9 to 33.
According to JACDEC criteria, there were 2017 deaths per 40 billion passengers in 4.
1 in 100 million passengers who boarded did not survive, 99.999999% could tell the story.
You can no longer make meaningful statistical lists with such figures, so you just start researching a mountain of risk factors. If KLM starts using one less stewardess on long-haul flights, they may fall out of the top ten.
By the way, China Airlines was the worst boy in the class last year.
And where has Qatar Airlines gone?
If it is all so little differentiating, it becomes very difficult to conclude anything sensible about the very safest, the safest, the safest, the safest and the even safer.
If the analysis is nevertheless highly risk-driven, it would undoubtedly be more useful to highlight the most unsafe ones. Bringing the rotten apples to the attention of the consumer is much more interesting in this case.