The 20 Safest Airlines in the World 2024 (AirlineRatings)

What are the safest airlines in the world? When it comes to safety, AirlineRatings takes into account a wide range of factors, including the airline’s accident history for the last five years, the history of serious incidents for the last two years, audits of governing bodies and aviation industry, government audits, industry-leading security initiatives, fleet age, and ultimately COVID-19 security protocols.

For its part, Australian airline Qantas lost the top spot this year due to an incident at Perth airport in 2018, in which a combination of factors caused the crew of a 737 that had just left the runway to roll further from the stop bars and enter an active runway, coming close to colliding with another company 737. The report on that complex and serious incident was not published until the end of 2020.

The editors of AirlineRatings have also identified the ten safest low-cost airlines for travellers to take advantage of. In alphabetical order they are; Allegiant, Easyjet, Frontier, Jetstar Airways, Jetblue, Ryanair, Vietjet, Volaris, Westjet, and Wizz Air.

The Safest Airlines in the World

S/N	Airline	Source
1.	Air New Zealand	New Zealand
2.	Etihad Airways	United Arab Emirates
3.	Qatar Airways	Qatar
4.	Singapore Airlines	Singapore
5.	TAP Air Portugal	Portugal
6.	SAS	Sweden
7.	Qantas	Australia
8.	Alaska Airlines	U.S
9.	EVA Air	Taiwan
10.	Virgin Australia/Virgin Atlantic	Australia
11.	Cathay Pacific Airways	Hong Kong
12.	Hawaiian Airlines	U.S
13.	American Airlines	U.S
14.	Lufthansa	Germany
15.	Finnair	Finland
16.	KLM	Netherlands
17.	British Airways	United Kingdom
18.	Delta Air Lines	U.S
19.	United Airlines	U.S
20.	Emirates	United Arab Emirates

Air New Zealand has been named the World’s Safest Airline in 2024 by AirlineRatings, the leading website for ranking airlines’ safety, products, and recently COVID-19 protocols.