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The safest airlines ranked

21 May 2009 12:53 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Nijat Mustafayev â€“ APA-Economics. Germany-based Jet Airliner Crash Data Evaluation Centre (JACDEC) has published a safety rating of 60 largest airlines operating around the world.

The rating is based on the quantity of air crashes, passenger traffic and carriersâ€™ service history in the market.

Quantas Airline, Finnair, Cathay Pacific, El Al and All Nippon Airways are the safest carriers which had no accidents for 35 years.

60 safest carriers

№	Airlines	Accident Free Years	Hull Losses	Number of Crash Fatalities	ounded	JACDEC Safety Index
1	Qantas Airways	35	0	0	1922	0,00
2	Finnair	35	0	0	1923	0,00
3	Cathay Pacific	35	0	0	1946	0,00
4	El Al	35	0	0	1948	0,00
5	All Nippon Airways	35	0	0	1953	0,00
6	Air Berlin	29	0	0	1979	0,00
7	Virgin Atlantic Airways	24	0	0	1984	0,00
8	Ryanair	23	0	0	1985	0,00
9	Emirates	22	0	0	1985	0,00
10	First Choice Airways	14	0	0	1987	0,00
11	EVA Air	17	0	0	1991	0,00
12	Qatar Airways	14	0	0	1994	0,00
13	EasyJet	12	0	0	1995	0,00
14	JetBlue	8	0	0	2000	0,00
15	Virgin Blue	7	0	0	2000	0,00
16	Southwest Airlines	8	1	0	1971	0,01
17	ThomsonFly	8	1	0	1962	0,02
18	British Airways	31	2	63	1919	0,03
19	TUI Fly	7	1	0	1972	0,03
20	Continental Airlines	9	5	25	1934	0,04
21	Air Canada	10	3	25	1937	0,04
22	Lufthansa	14	3	61	1955	0,05
23	Austrian Airlines Group	4	1	0	1958	0,05
24	Condor/Thomas Cook	20	1	16	1956	0,06
25	Singapore Airlines	7	1	83	1972	0,06
26	United Airlines	6	5	257	1931	0,07
27	Delta AirLines	18	5	236	1928	0,07
28	Swiss Intl AirLines	6	1	0	2002	0,07
29	Northwest Airlines	2	4	162	1926	0,08
30	Air France	2	9	116	1933	0,10
31	China Eastern Airlines	14	2	36	1988	0,16
32	US Airways	13	10	220	1938	0,21
33	American Airlines	6	11	895	1934	0,22
34	Alitalia	8	4	154	1947	0,23
35	AirTran Airways	7	3	0	1993	0,23
36	Japan Airlines	22	5	579	1951	0,26
37	Malaysia Airlines	8	4	134	1972	0,26
38	Alaska Airlines	8	2	88	1932	0,27
39	LAN Chile Airlines	17	3	21	1929	0,27
40	Asiana Airlines	14	1	68	1988	0,28
41	Air China	6	1	129	1988	0,28
42	SAS	0	6	110	1946	0,29
43	South African Airways	20	1	159	1934	0,32
44	Iberia	3	7	267	1927	0,37
45	TAP Air Portugal	30	1	131	1945	0,40
46	China Southern Airlines	9	3	176	1991	0,44
47	Mexicana	22	2	166	1921	0,49
48	Air New Zealand	28	2	259	1940	0,49
49	Aeroflot Russian Airlines	6	10	182	1992	0,53
50	Thai Airways	9	8	428	1960	0,59
51	Aeromexico	5	8	139	1934	0,68
52	Philippine Airlines	0	13	316	1946	0,77
53	Korean Air	9	11	702	1969	0,87
54	Saudi Arabian Airlines	10	4	611	1947	1,08
55	Gulf Air	7	3	255	1950	1,25
56	Air India	18	4	556	1932	1,49
57	China Airlines	0	9	755	1959	1,52
58	Pakistan Intl Airlines	2	12	435	1954	1,81
59	TAM	0	6	336	1976	2,15
60	THY Turkish Airlines	5	10	844	1933	3,12