They were particularly safe on the road in 2022: Arab airlines Etihad and Emirates. In a risk analysis, airlines from the United Arab Emirates are ahead of Dutch KLM, US Jetblue and British Easyjet.
The Swiss parent company Lufthansa was ranked 14th in the global ranking of the 25 companies with the highest traffic performance, in the analysis of the Hamburg flight accident agency Jacdec.
Not evaluated in 2021, Etihad pushed Emirates to second place. According to the report published in the aviation magazine “Aero International” (February issue), both companies have relatively young fleets.
Russian Aeroflot “crashed”
After the Russian attack on Ukraine, the Russian airline Aeroflot was significantly devalued, ranking only 25. Safety-related reasons for the devaluation include the illegal admission of Western chartered jets to the Russian registry and the interruption of the supply of spare parts. Because of the economic sanctions on Russia.
The Jacdec Risk Index is based on each airline’s accident history over the past 30 years, the country-specific environment in which it operates, and airline-specific risk factors. Theoretically, an index value of 100 could be achieved, but even the best companies fall short of that. The number of passenger kilometers covered by airlines is important: the more distance an airline travels without an accident, the lower the risk and therefore the safer it is in this ranking.
Finnair achieved the highest index value among Europe’s busiest operators, followed by KLM and Transavia. The head of analysis, Jan-Arwed Richter, said that, basically, an extremely high level of safety has been reached again in the year of the reboot following the Corona recession in civil air traffic. Therefore, individual events had a particularly strong impact on statistics.
worst accident in china
The crash of a China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 on March 21 near the city of Wuzhou in southern China has been called the worst accident of the year. All 132 people on board died. The accident was probably caused by the co-pilot’s suicide. While Jacdec relied on insider information, Chinese investigative authorities have so far gone unnoticed.
Overall, Jacdec recorded 19 fatalities last year, resulting in a total of 233 fatalities. That meant 60 more deaths than in 2021, when significantly fewer were flown. The average of the last ten years is 372 deaths.
According to airline association IATA, worldwide commercial air traffic reached just under 71 percent of passenger volume last year compared to pre-corona 2019. For 2023, the organization hopes to recover well to 85 percent of 2019 volume. .(SDA/smt)