World's Safest Airline for 2022 Revealed

(DailyExpertNews) — The past year has again proved to be an incredibly difficult year for airlines as the slump in air traffic continued into 2021 due to the impact of the ongoing pandemic.

Even now, two years after Covid-19 was first brought to the world’s attention, there are still far fewer flights and passengers taking to the skies

The virus also continued to dominate the air safety discussion, leading to some significant changes to the annual list of the world’s safest airlines from AirlineRatings.com, an aviation safety and product rating website.

This year, Air New Zealand tops the annual safety chart, which monitors 385 airlines from around the world and measures factors such as the number of airlines’ crashes and serious incidents, the age of their aircraft and Covid-19 protocols and operational innovation. .

Top position

Qantas has lost the top spot on AirlineRatings.com’s list of the world’s safest airlines.

Boeing

According to Geoffrey Thomas, editor-in-chief of the Australia-based website, New Zealand’s flag carrier was awarded first place “for its excellent incident record, number of cockpit innovations, pilot training and very low fleet age”.

Etihad Airways finished in second place, while Qatar Airways finished in third place, with Singapore Airlines and TAP Portugal taking fourth and fifth place respectively.

Notably missing from the top five is Qantas, which held the title of the world’s safest airline from 2014 to 2017, as well as from 2019 to 2021 (no clear winner could be found in 2018).

The Australian flag carrier takes seventh place this time around due to a “slight increase in incidents coupled with the age of the fleet.”

In October 2021, a Qantas Boeing traveling from the Australian city of Perth to Adelaide in Western Australia was diverted due to a fuel imbalance in an incident classified as a “serious incident”.

“The past two years have been extremely difficult for airlines with Covid-19 travel and Airline Ratings editors have focused mainly on airlines’ efforts to retrain pilots before they can be rehired,” explains Thomas. .

“Air New Zealand is a leader in this field with extensive retraining.”

Security Improvements

UAE airline Emirates ranked 20th on the list, which monitors 385 airlines from around the world.

Airbus

The airline has also been acclaimed for being a global leader in operational safety improvements for the past four decades.

“Air New Zealand has excelled across the broad safety spectrum, never losing sight of the smallest details, while caring for its flight crews who have been working under significant stress,” Thomas told DailyExpertNews Travel.

In some cases, AirlineRatings has chosen to simply name the winner before listing the rest of the top airlines alphabetically.

But the website recently chose to rank each of the top 20 airlines in numerical order, revealing significant movement from year to year.

For example, Emirates was number five on the 2021 list, but the UAE airline is in 20th place this year, while Southwest Airlines was in 13th place in 2021, but is not included in the new top 20 for 2022.

AirlineRatings.com has also compiled a list of the world’s safest budget airlines, which have been reordered alphabetically as they are ranked equally.

The top 10 safest low cost airlines are: Allegiant Air, easyJet, Frontier Airlines, Jetstar Group, Jetblue, Ryanair, Vietjet Air, Volaris, Westjet and Wizz Air.