But if the plane is the safest transport in the world...!”
How many of us cross ourselves - real or figuratively, Christian or atheistically - when the plane is about to take off? And how many of us keep bad omens away from us with the tagline repeated a hundred times: “! But if the plane is the safest transport in the world !” Well, enough assumptions and beliefs: we already have data, one more year, on which are the safest airlines in the world.
The classification is carried out by the Australian consultancy specializing in airlines Airline Ratings , which renames the also Australian qantas as the safest company in the world. It has been doing so since this study began in 2013, because, according to the auditor, in its 98 years of life there has never been a death on its planes.
As if that were not enough, the Australian airline is also a leader in the development of tools that make flights safer , such as the Future Air Navigation System, a data registry that monitors the performance of the plane and subsequent crew, as well as "automatic" landings, which make use of the global navigation satellite system. In addition, Qantas stands out for having executed precision approaches around cloud-covered mountains and for being the first airline to monitor engines in real time of its entire fleet via satellite communications, which has enabled it to detect failures before they become a major security issue.
The peace of mind of traveling in a safe company
THE SAFEST AIRLINES IN THE WORLD
The Airline Ratings ranking, which takes into account audits by government aviation agencies, reports from industry associations, and accident and fatality records for 405 airlines, continues its list of the 20 safest airlines with 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, Qatar, Scandinavian Airline System, Singapore Airlines, Swiss, United Airlines, and the Virgin group.
It does not sneak into the ranking not a single Spanish company, Regrettably. However, it does in the classification of the ten safest low-cost airlines in the world. A) Yes, Vueling -which is also one of the most punctual on the planet- accompanies Flybe, Frontier, HK Express, Jetblue, Jetstar Australia / Asia, Thomas Cook, Volaris, Westjet and Wizz on this list. All of them have passed the strict Operational Safety Audit of the International Air Transport Association (IOSA) and have, according to Airline Ratings, excellent safety records.
Only one Spanish airline is one of the safest in the world
" All airlines have incidents every day , and in many cases these are issues related to the manufacture of the aircraft itself, not airline operational issues," said Geoffrey Thomas, the editor-in-chief of AirlineRatings.com. How the flight crew handles incidents it is what differentiates a good airline from an unsafe one, so grouping them simply by joining all kinds of incidents is very misleading", he explains with respect to how the companies have been assessed. Thus, for example, the specialist assures that some countries they have a weaker crash reporting system than others, which makes it even more difficult to compare them with each other.
THE LEAST SAFE AIRLINES IN THE WORLD
In the case of the airlines that Airline Ratings has described as the most insecure in the world, it does not slip either none spanish , which, in this case, is a relief. The chosen ones are Ariana Afghan Airlines, Bluewing Airlines, Kam Air and Trigana Air Service.