Rating of the most safe airline companies in the world 2018

We are presenting you traditional annual rating of the world’s safest airline companies of 2018 published by German audit company Jacdec. The rating is made for already 16 years.

Since current year JACDEC changes detection principle of the airline company’s safety. From now on instead of Safety Index is introduced Safety Risk Index that is expressed in per cents.

So, entire list has undergone significant changes as compared to rating of 2017.

Detailed information about Safety Risk Index determination you will find in the end of this article.

P.S. Full list of 100 airline companies will be presented later.

Place	Airline	Country	From	Lost*	Incidents	Index
#1	Emirates	UAE	1985	1	27	93,61%
#2	Norwegian Air Shuttle	Norway	1993	0	6	93.26%
#3	Virgin Atlantic Airways	United Kingdom	1985	0	15	92,87%
#4	KLM	Netherlands	1920	1	21	92,77%
#5	EasyJet	United Kindom	1996	0	24	92,75%
#6	Finnair	Finland	1923	0	5	92,67%
#7	Etihad Airways	UAE	2003	0	10	92,56%
#8	Spirit Airlines	USA	1980	0	5	92,18%
#9	Jetstar Airways	Australia	2004	0	9	92,12%
#10	Air Arabia	UAE	2003	0	2	92,09%
#11	Vueling Airlines	Spain	2004	0	8	92,02%
#12	Cathay Pacific Airways	Hong Kong	1946	0	10	91,88%
#13	EL AL	Israel	1949	0	11	91,84%
#14	Singapore Airlines	Singapore	1972	1	20	91,78%
#15	EVA Air	Taiwan	1991	0	6	91,55%
#16	Eurowings	Germany	1993	0	8	91,41%
#17	JetBlue Airlines	USA	2000	0	11	91,40%
#18	Capital Airlines	China	1995	0	0	91,36%
#19	Oman Air	Oman	1981	0	2	91,28%
#20	Air Canada	Canada	1937	2	32	91,20%
#21	Virgin Australia	Australia	2000	0	12	91,15%
#22	Lufthansa	Germany	1955	1	39	90,92%
#23	WestJet Airlines	Canada	1996	0	13	90,76%
#24	Air Europa	Spain	1986	0	11	91,20%
#25	QANTAS	Australia	1922	0	25	90,39%
#26	Frontier Airlines	USA	1994	0	4	90,39%
#27	Aer Lingus	Ireland	1936	0	9	90,34%
#28	AirAsia X	Malaysia	2007	0	5	90,11%
#29	Air New Zealand	New Zealand	1940	0	12	90,01%
#30	Delta Air Lines	USA	1922	3	85	89,91%
#31	LATAM Chile	Chile	1929	1	12	89,88%
#32	Air Transat	Canada	1987	0	5	89,80%
#33	All Nippon Airways	Japan	1954	0	17	89,77%
#34	Thomas Cook Airlines	United Kindom	2000	0	11	89,74%
#35	Volaris	Mexico	2005	0	1	89,69%
#36	Southwest Airlines	USA	1971	3	29	89,58%
#37	WizzAir	Hungary	2004	0	9	89,56%
#38	Allegiant Air	USA	1998	0	4	89,46%
#39	Austrian Airlines	Austria	1957	0	11	89,28%
#40	Swiss Airlines	Switzerland	2002	1	24	89,24%
#41	Juneyao Airlines	China	2005	0	1	89,20%
#42	Shanghai Airlines	China	1985	0	1	89,19%
#43	Ryanair	Ireland	1985	1	42	89,13%
#44	TUI Airways	United Kindom	1962	1	13	89,11%
#45	Shandong Airlines	China	1991	0	1	89,05%
#46	Sichuan Airlines	China	1988	0	9	89,03%
#47	Japan Airlines	Japan	1951	0	28	88,26%
#48	Spring Airlines	China	2004	0	2	88,75%
#49	Qatar Airways	Qatar	1994	0	9	88,73%
#50	Pegasus Airlines	Turkey	1990	0	7	88,68%

*Total quantity of lost airplanes since 1988

Jacdec deals with listing of the safest airline companies for already 16 years. During 15 years auditor was using their own Safety Index, however, beginning with 2018 JACDEC introduces new Safety Risk Index.

What is this index based on?

To calculate the index of each carrier are taken data of three main directions:

• Accidents/Incidents
• Concurrent ambient factors (landscape, weather conditions, infrastructural airport peculiarities and other)
• Various criteria of the airline company’s activity (fleet age, route network, safety audit of international organizations IOSA (IATA Operational Safety Audit) and ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization)).

All together the calculation formula consists of 33 points, in such a way their quantity has increased by 336 % as compared to Safety Index.

Official web-site — www.jacdec.de