AirlineRatings names top ten safest airlines and top ten safest low cost airlines

Safety and product rating website AirlineRatings.com recently announced its top ten safest airlines and top ten safest low cost airlines for 2015 from the 449 it monitors.

Top of the list again is Australian airline Qantas which has a fatality free record in the jet era. Following in the top ten (in alphabetical order) are: Air New Zealand, British Airways, Cathay Pacific Airways, Emirates, Etihad Airways, EVA Air, Finnair, Lufthansa and Singapore Airlines.

AirlineRatings.com’s rating system takes into account a range of factors related to audits from aviation’s governing bodies such as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) as well as government audits and the airline’s fatality record.

AirlineRating.com’s editorial team, also examined each airline’s operational history, incident records and operational excellence to arrive at its top ten safest airlines.

Source: http://goo.gl/ZrWMT0