Have You Been Flying The World’s Safest Airlines?

Written by Site Adminstrator on January 16, 2025. Posted in Blog.

Every year, AirlineRatings.com releases a list of the world’s safest airlines. This year’s study analyzed a total of 385 global airlines to come to a conclusion.

When crafting the list, AirlineRankings.com took a look at various safety factors, including: serious incidents over the past two years, fleet age, fleet size, rate of incidents, fatalities, profitability, IOSA certification, ICAO country audit pass, and pilot skill and training.

Fortunately, most of the United States’ big four airlines made the cut. However, Air New Zealand took the number one spot as the safest airline in the world.

Air New Zealand airplane wing — Unsplash / Daniel Norris

“It was extremely close again between Air New Zealand and Qantas for first place with only 1.50 points separating the two airlines. Whilst both airlines uphold the highest safety standards and pilot training, Air New Zealand continue to have a younger fleet than Qantas which separates the two,” said AirlineRatings.com CEO, Sharon Petersen. “The three-way tie for third place was because we simply could not separate these airlines. From fleet age to pilot skill, safety practices, fleet size, and number of incidents, their scores were identical.”