REVEALED: The world's safest and unsafest airlines

Feroze Monday, 28 January 2013 11:34 AM - pakistan

This report is based on Hull loss and lives lost in accidents!! It is not based on what measures airlines have in place. I dont see how an airline can pay or not pay to have their names on the safest and not so safest list. Such numbers cannot lie!!

geg Thursday, 24 January 2013 5:14 PM - Bahrain

As perceived safe as they are, this survey is nothing but a load of PR 3rd world adoration tosh! This is simply so way off reality, it doesn't warrant a moment's consideration.
Emirates and Etihad are infants. KLM is pretty much the word's oldest airline, flying not far short of a hundred years longer than the babies in question and considering the miles they have flown, their safety record is impeccable; not perfect but way up among the best such as Air Canada and Qantas etc., . Dare we mention a near perfect EL AL record?
This silly press release is aimed at the uninformed, largely unsophisticated mass who will now tout this absolute tosh as fact for years to come.
Hikmat hits the nail by asking to reveal the criteria and it is probably some PR agency getting paid - cashing in on the 'ask anyone from Dubai who seem to cult worship anything Emirates' who is the best and surprise surprise, it's Emirates! Yet credible critics know well they lack in several areas.

John Smith Monday, 28 January 2013 11:40 AM - Canada

Absolutely, as an ex EY employee, I agree with you 100% because I do know exactly what's going on and the ins and outs and cats behind, so to speak!

Hikmat Wednesday, 23 January 2013 3:31 PM - Lebanon

We will accept this data, only if we know the base of the study.
Anybody has an idea??????

Rob Wednesday, 23 January 2013 9:33 AM - Dubai

Maybe the safe airlines are the ones that paid ab for their ranking.

jerry Tuesday, 22 January 2013 10:15 PM - Saudi Arabia

Turkish airlines, unsafe?? are you kidding me?

DCDC Tuesday, 22 January 2013 1:14 PM - Oman

This research is incomplete or not based on real facts. If you research properly, research through ground service providers, airside employees, flight crew, engineering, security agencies, safety & security audits in place and how seriously they look at audit findings and recommendations, Emirates and Etihad is nowhere near to British Airways. Please research amount of extra security and safety measures BA has, compare to others and amount of money they spent which is not visible to the public.
My advise is if you want to fly fancy it may be Emirates, or Etihad. But if you want to fly safe its still BA.

Jezinho Tuesday, 22 January 2013 10:20 AM - Bahrain

Whilst I appreciate that this report from JACDEC has been highlighted by ABC as it allows a degree of flag waving for EK and EY, the report is somewhat flawed. It uses loss and accident data over a 30 year period, thus (for example) Air Canada is marked down for the 23 lives lost when there was a fire aboard flight 797. But this tragedy took place on a DC9 in June 1983 and is thus hardly indicative of the safety regime that is now in place at the airline. The statistics also favour long haul airlines as the denominator is RPK. Furthermore, newer airlines such as EY benefit as their data only goes back to 2003 thus the probability of an accident is less.

Telcoguy Tuesday, 22 January 2013 6:32 PM - UAE

Yep, security levels in the last 10 years have nothing to do with those 30 years ago. Airlines that were flying 30 years will score much lower than newer airlines
There is also the issue that shifting one year will substantially improve the score for Turkish Airlines. When your analysis lacks robustness so badly there is something fishy going on. But I seriously doubt this has to do Emirates/Etihad paying for this; much more likely this has to do with the Germans singling out Turkish Airlines
Oh well, another piece of biased research. Maybe AB could do a little bit of legwork and check these kind of things... that is what journalists are supposed to do I think
Having said that, it is really hard to come up with a proper, unbiased analysis when you are dealing with such rare events as airline crashes have become, specially if you want to untangle the influence of the airline and the influence of the plane model (again the one that penalizes Turkish Airlines has more to do with McDD)

Abdul hafeez Sheikh Tuesday, 22 January 2013 9:36 AM - Pakistan Islamabad

What about IATA , do they feel the same way ,if so i congratulate Emirates air lines and Etihad alir lines They belong to the safest country in the world whihc is UAE

Krish Tuesday, 22 January 2013 9:35 AM - Qatar

This list is definitely the joke of the year !! i cant understand
the logic behind this joke. in a recent poll turkish airline was
voted the bestairline in europe . now its ranked 54th !!
these jokers missed out garuda, pia, iranair, aeroflot, nepalairlines.
this looks like some paid news !! any keep it up jokers of
JACDEC !!