When making its list, the website takes into account numerous factors such as audits from aviation's governing bodies and associations; government audits; airline's crash and serious incident record, safety initiative incorporated by the airline, fleet age and lastly, profitability.
And this year Qantas has been named the world's safest airline.
World's safest airlines for 2019 named. @QantasNews @VirginAustralia @cathaypacific @AirNZMedia @BoeingCCO @BoeingCEO @BoeingAirplanes @NewsAirbus @AirbusPRESS #AirCrashInvestigation #planecrash #planes https://t.co/HGDnl7bRMa— Airline Ratings (@Airline_ratings) January 3, 2019
The top 20 airlines in alphabetical order are:
Air New ZealandAlaska Airlines
All Nippon Airways
American Airlines
Austrian Airlines
British Airways
Cathay Pacific Airways
Emirates
EVA Air
Finnair
Hawaiian
Airlines
KLM,
Lufthansa
Qantas
Qatar Airways
Scandinavian Airline System
Singapore Airlines, SwissUnited Airlines and Virgin group of airlines (Atlantic and Australia)