Four of the key airlines operating year-round and seasonally at Corvera Airport Murcia have received global recognition for their safety records. EasyJet, Ryanair, Norwegian, Vueling were named in AirlineRatings.com’s annual top 20 list of the world’s safest low-cost airlines for 2024.
According to the authoritative safety and product rating agency, factors used to decide the top 20 safest low-cost airlines included: incident records over the past two years, crash records for the past five years, results of audits conducted by the governing body of aviation (International Civil Aviation Organisation), E.U. banned lists and fleet age.
The 2024 list (in order) is: Jetstar, EasyJet, Ryanair, Wizz Air, Norwegian, Frontier, Vueling, Vietjet, Southwest, Volaris, flydubai, AirAsia Group, Cebu Pacific, Sun Country, Spirit, Westjet, JetBlue, Air Arabia, Indigo and Eurowings.
Launched in June 2013, AirlineRatings rates the safety, in-flight product and COVID-19 compliance of 385 airlines using its “unique” seven-star rating system which, the agency says, “has been used by millions of passengers from 195 countries and has become the industry standard for safety and product rating.
“Airlineratings.com was developed to provide everyone with a one-stop shop for everything related to airlines, formed by a team of aviation editors, who have forensically researched nearly every airline in the world.”
The agency also released its overall 2024 list of the world’s top 25 safest airlines, which AirlineRatings.com editor-in-chief Geoffrey Thomas described as “standouts in the industry and at the forefront of safety, innovation and launching of new aircraft”.
He said it had been “an extremely close tussle” between Air New Zealand and Qantas, with only 1.50 points between the two airlines and fleet age just tipping Qantas off the top spot.
The full list (in order) is: Air New Zealand, Qantas, Virgin Australia, Etihad Airways, Qatar Airways, Emirates, All Nippon Airways, Finnair, Cathay Pacific Airways, Alaska Airlines, SAS, Korean Air, Singapore Airlines, EVA Air, British Airways, Turkish Airlines, TAP Air Portugal, Lufthansa/Swiss Group, KLM, Japan Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, American Airlines, Air France, Air Canada Group and United Airlines.
Thomas noted that the editors had analysed crashes over five years, serious incidents for the past two years, audits from aviation’s governing bodies and lead associations, government audits, fleet age and air crew training.
He said that all airlines have incidents every day, and many are aircraft or engine manufacture issues, not airline operational problems. “It is the way the flight crew handles these serious incidents that determines a good airline from an unsafe one.”
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