The top 20 of the safest airlines worldwide based on crashes and serious incidents, amongst other criteria.
Flights are generally one of the safest ways to travel but many passengers still board a plane with a queasy feeling, so it would be good to know which airlines have the best safety ratings. The rankings of Airlineratings.com are considered the most reliable source in this respect: the website is regarded as the number one for assessing flight safety worldwide.
The latest ranking of the safest airlines in 2023 has now been published. These are the Top 20:
To create the ranking list, editors of Airlineratings.com analyse different criteria, including crashes over five years, serious incidents over two years, audits from aviation’s governing bodies and lead associations, fleet age, expert analysis of pilot training, and COVID protocols.
The site has also revealed its Top 20 safest low-cost airlines for 2023 – these have been published in alphabetical order and not as a ranking: Air Arabia, AirAsia Group, Allegiant, Air Baltic, EasyJet, FlyDubai, Frontier, Jetstar Group, Jetblue, Indigo, Ryanair, Scoot, Southwest, Spicejet, Spirit, Vueling, Vietjet, Volaris, Westjet, and Wizz.
As all airlines have incidents every day, it is the way the flight crew handles these incidents that determines a good airline from an unsafe one, according to Thomas Geoffrey, Editor-in-Chief of Airlineratings.com. This review agency was launched in June 2013 and rates the safety, in-flight product, and COVID-19 compliance of 385 airlines using a seven-star rating system. Its editorial team has won almost 50 international and national awards and authored or co-authored more than 28 industry books.
