Emirates retains title of safest airline in the world
Emirates scored 95.05% points in the risk index to beat Dutch airline KLM (93.31%), JetBlue (91.61%), Delta (91.55%) and easyJet (91.28%)
Dubai-based Emirates has been named the world’s safest airline for the second successive year, according to the Hamburg-based Jet Airliner Crash Data Evaluation Centre (JACDEC).
With a risk
index of 95.05%, Emirates beat out its nearest rivals KLM (93.31%), JetBlue
(91.61%), Delta (91.55 %) and EasyJet (91.28 %) among the 25 airlines surveyed.
The survey was carried out for aviation magazine Aero International.
For the
first time, JACDEC also published regional rankings, which compare the world’s
largest airlines within one of four regions.
In Europe, KLM (93.31 percent) took first place, ahead of Finnair (93.16 percent), Air Europa (93.12 percent), Transavia (92.83 percent), EasyJet (91.28 percent) and Norwegian (90.95 percent).
The creation
of regional categories was “primarily due to the changed size ratios, which
shifted in favour of many airlines with strong domestic markets such as China
or the US”, explained JACDEC founder Jan-Arwed Richter.
Some
well-known airlines such as Austrian, Eurowings and Condor didn’t even make it
into the European Top 25 due to insufficient passenger-kilometre performance in
2021.
Even before
the emergence of the omicron variant and the renewed restrictions that followed
in its wake, aviation industry losses due to the pandemic have already totaled
some $200 billion, according to Willie Walsh, director general of the airline
association IATA.
Walsh
predicted a total loss of $52bn for 2021 and of $12bn in 2022, before the
aviation industry finally returns to making profits in 2023.
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