Ryanb741 From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2002, 3219 posts, RR: 17 Reply 1, posted (11 years 2 months 2 weeks 4 days 8 hours ago) and read 1498 times:
QF in terms of fatalities and also years in service, however as they operate relatively few flights compared to the major carriers this needs to be taken in consideration.
Before they screwed up at Taipei, SQ had an excellent record.
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Arsenal@LHR From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2001, 7791 posts, RR: 22 Reply 4, posted (11 years 2 months 2 weeks 4 days 7 hours ago) and read 1448 times:
All the major airlines around the airline all have excellent safety record if u judge them by the statistics. To name a few (AA,LH,AF,BA,UA,VS,SQ,CX,CO,DL,QF etc.)
Sometimes accidents occur due to pilot error, weather, terrorism etc, that are out of the airlines control, so take that into consideration. But you should have no worries about flying any of the airlines i've mentioned or any other major airline.
Personnally, i feel safer flying on British Airways than any other airline, dunno why.
Arsenal@LHR From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2001, 7791 posts, RR: 22 Reply 6, posted (11 years 2 months 2 weeks 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 1379 times:
It's not really tempting fate. Even if anyone of the airlines i've mentioned has an accident, it doesn't make them an unsafe airline. Every plane is unsafe unless it's maintained properly, so you have to look at the airlines and their maintenance records and procedures.
AsianaAirlines From United States of America, joined Sep 2000, 198 posts, RR: 1 Reply 7, posted (11 years 2 months 2 weeks 4 days 1 hour ago) and read 1345 times:
For some reason, I feel deeply safe when I'm flying Southwest.
EI A330-200 From Sweden, joined Apr 2001, 409 posts, RR: 5 Reply 8, posted (11 years 2 months 2 weeks 4 days 1 hour ago) and read 1336 times:
Aer Lingus has an incredible safety record. I don't think they even have a major accident in their record. Like I said, I'm not positive about that, but I think so. Besides, it is the National Airline of Ireland, what more can you ask for? Gotta love it!
Trintocan From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2000, 3192 posts, RR: 4 Reply 9, posted (11 years 2 months 2 weeks 4 days 1 hour ago) and read 1331 times:
I think that overall Air Canada is considered the safest, given their large network and few accidents - they have not had a fatal accident since 1983. Qantas and BWIA have been accident-free for longer but, especially in the case of BW, there is the smaller network factor to contend with. BWIA has in fact never had a passenger fatality.
Ganymed From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 11, posted (11 years 2 months 2 weeks 4 days ago) and read 1316 times:
Luxair has also never had a passenger fatality in it's history but the topic is rather discussing about MAJOR airlines .
Condor and LTU come into my mind,unless they are not considered a major airline ,I 've never heard of an accident involving one of the 2 holiday carriers,correct me if I'm wrong.
Elwood64151 From United States of America, joined Feb 2002, 2477 posts, RR: 7 Reply 13, posted (11 years 2 months 2 weeks 4 days ago) and read 1297 times:
As for airliner safety in the US, expect that all carriers are going to be just about the same, regardless of size. Maintenance facilities are strictly controlled, and after ValuJet, even the low-cost/low-fares are heavily scrutinized and safe (judging by the FAA presence at the low-cost/low-fare I work at, I'd say more so than the majors).
As for airlines outside the United States, it would be better to look at national records, since each nation is responsible for its own safety standards and keeping airlines in line with those standards. Personally, I'd never have flown Swissair, and I will never fly Aeroflop. I just wouldn't feel safe.
Still, flying has been and will continue to be the safest way to travel. Well, okay. Monorails have a slightly better record, but they're just different!
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Arsenal@LHR From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2001, 7791 posts, RR: 22 Reply 18, posted (11 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 4 hours ago) and read 1194 times:
Sccutler From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 5103 posts, RR: 28 Reply 19, posted (11 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 4 hours ago) and read 1185 times:
These are always interesting threads, with the obligatory (and specious) "Rain Man" reference to Qantas, and extensive "politicking" on behalf of each user's favorite carrier.
"Safe" can be measured in so many ways. But, if you accept the premise (generally accepted among those whose business is the safety of aircraft) that each flight cycle represents an approximately equal chance of an incident, then it is difficult to place any carrier above Southwest, whose record for safety stands paramount and whose numbers of ops is huge.
They have written off one aircraft- the Burbank long-landing plane- although if they had applied QF's standards (no write-off, regardless of cost to repair) it could still be flying.
As some above have mentioned, any certificated air carrier in a first-world country is likely pretty darned safe.
But you cannot ever establish which is the "safest," without attaching all manner of caveats to the term.
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Dfleet7 From United States of America, joined Feb 2001, 153 posts, RR: 1 Reply 20, posted (11 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 3 hours ago) and read 1170 times:
Mika From Sweden, joined Jul 2000, 2788 posts, RR: 4 Reply 21, posted (11 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 1 hour ago) and read 1149 times:
EL AL had a 747 going down/into (if i remember it right, it lost (as in separeted from the wing) 2 engines before it went down?) a appartment building in Amsterdam a couple of years back. I could be wrong though.
Arsenal@LHR From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2001, 7791 posts, RR: 22 Reply 22, posted (11 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 1 hour ago) and read 1141 times:
EL AL lost a 747 freighter when it sliced through an apartment building in Amsterdam. Can't think of any other EL AL incidents though.
SashA From Russia, joined May 1999, 858 posts, RR: 0 Reply 23, posted (11 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 1 hour ago) and read 1144 times:
Elwood64151: ...and I will never fly Aeroflop. I just wouldn't feel safe.
Did you mean Aeroflot?
You want to back up that statement with facts? With the size of fleet and number of flights, the USSR Aeroflot wasn't any more dangerous than any Western airline. In fact, it has a better record than some major US airlines.
The new, Russian, Aeroflot is a different story altogether - one of the safest by record in the world.
So, it;s about time people like you dropped the childish and silly "I hate anything Russian" Cold War style attitude.
BH346 From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 3265 posts, RR: 17 Reply 24, posted (11 years 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 1 hour ago) and read 1139 times:
Statistically, All Nippon Airways has among the lowest, if not the lowest, accident rate out of major Asian airlines.
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25 Arsenal@LHR: We could go on and on about which airlines have good and bad safety records. But to put it simply, every major airline (and the small ones) all have e
26 UAL1837: United hasn't lost an airplane since 1991 (flight 585 in COS), and the last accident that could have been prevented by United was the DC-8 that went d
27 Arsenal@LHR: On sep 11, UA/AA were the victims, they did nothing wrong.
28 Qantas737: As for as some survey results came out last year these were the 3 "safest" airlines to fly. 1. Air Canada 2. Ansett Australia 3. Qantas This has obvio
29 Tekelbery: Northwest has a great safety record!
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