The Australian consultancy Airline Ratings has just published its annual report on the safest airlines in the world.
This year, Air New Zealand placed at the top of the ranking, a place that until now –and since this study began in 2013– had held Qantas.
Of the 385 different airlines it monitors, Airline Ratings has selected the top 20 of the safest to travel 2022, which stand out in the industry and are at the forefront of safety, innovation and the launch of new aircraft.
Air New Zealand.
“Air New Zealand has won countless awards and has a strong focus on safety and your customers and, in the last 18 months, covid-19 has brought another new dimension to the challenges”, he affirms Geoffrey Thomas, editor-in-chief of AirlineRatings.com.
“Air New Zealand excels across the broad spectrum of security never losing sight of the smallest detail while take care of your flight crews, who have worked under significant stress,” he concludes.
Qantas.
THE SAFEST AIRLINES IN THE WORLD
Air New Zealand moves up two places from 2021 and is thus placed as the safest airline in the world, followed by Etihad Airways (moving up five places to second place) and Qatar Airways (which goes down a step to third place).
In fourth place is Singapore Airlines , which reaffirms its position from the previous year, followed by TAP Air Portugal (5th) and SAS (6th).
Completing the top 10: qantas (down from first to seventh place), Alaska Airlines (up from eighth position last year), EVA Air (9th) and Virgin Australia/Atlantic (10th).
Qatar Airways
In eleventh place is Cathay Pacific Airways (which goes down two steps), followed by hawaiian airlines (which maintains the position number 12), American Airlines (moving up three places to thirteenth place) and Lufthansa/Swiss Group (14th).
Completing the top 20: Finnair (15th), Air France/KLM Group (16th), British Airways (17th), Delta Airlines (18th), United Airlines (19th) and emirates (20º).
1.Singapore Airlines
THE TEN SAFEST LOW COST AIRLINES FOR 2022
Airline Ratings has also produced the list of ten low cost airlines (LCC) safer by 2022, Thanks to which "millions of people travel for the first time or take trips that they could not otherwise pay for," they say from the consultancy.
In this case, they do not elaborate a ranking of positions but rather list them in alphabetical order, they are: Allegiant, easyjet, Frontier, Jetstar Group, Jetblue, Ryanair, Vietjet, Volaris, Westjet and Wizz.
Among the factors used to select them are: records of incidents In the last two years, records of accidents in the last five years, results of audits carried out by aviation's governing body, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), EU prohibited vehicle lists and fleet age.
METHODOLOGY AND APPROACH
To compile the list of the safest airlines, the editors of AirlineRatings.com analyze the following factors: accidents for five years, serious incidents for two years, governing body audits aviation and leading associations; government audits, fleet age and covid protocols to make your determinations.
“However, all airlines have incidents every day, and many are aircraft or engine manufacturing problems, no airline operational issues. It's the way the flight crew handles these incidents what determines a good airline from an unsafe one”, explains Geoffrey Thomas.
And he continues: “Our twenty safest airlines for 2022 are always at the forefront of innovation in safety, operational excellence and the launch of new, more advanced aircraft such as the Airbus A350 (above) and the Boeing 787”.
Airline Ratings was launched in June 2013 and rates safety, products in flight and compliance with regulations related to covid-19 from 385 airlines using its unique seven-star rating system.
It has been used by millions of passengers from 195 countries and has become the industry standard for the classification of security, products and covid-19.
The editorial team is one of the most experienced in the world with almost 50 international and national awards. They have also authored or co-authored more than 28 books on the industry.