Status: 03.01.2022 2:43 p.m.
The golf airline Emirates has again been named the safest airline in the world this year. The German Lufthansa lands in 17th place.
Aviation experts from the Hamburg Aircraft Accident Bureau JACDEC have once again chosen the golf airline Emirates as the safest airline in the world. A risky incident shortly before the end of the year when a Boeing 777 took off in Dubai has not changed that. With a risk index of 95.05 percent, Emirates is among the 25 largest airlines in the world, ahead of the Dutch KLM (93.31 percent), the US airlines Jetblue Airways (91.61) and Delta Air Lines (91.55) and the British Easyjet (91.28). The theoretically achievable best value is 100 percent, according to the ranking provided by the dpa news agency.
Air Canada (90.9) follows in sixth place, ahead of the US airlines Southwest (90.11) and Spirit Airlines (89.73) as well as Irish Ryanair (89.41) and the Arabian Qatar Airways (89.24) . Lufthansa landed in 17th place with an index of 87.9. For the first time, the aircraft accident investigators also published regional rankings that compare the largest airlines within their regions. Instead of a single listing with 100 airlines, there are now four individual lists, arranged according to world regions.
The JACDEC assessment is based on the airline’s accident history over the past 30 years, the country-specific environment in which it operates and on “airline specific risk factors”, which are not explained in detail by the experts.
Lufthansa in 15th place in Europe
Regionally, Emirates has slipped behind another golf airline, Etihad Airways. However, it did not appear in the top ranking of the world’s 25 largest airlines due to the lack of traffic. In the Europe region, the Dutch KLM (93.31) leads the way, ahead of Finnair (93.16), the Spanish Air Europa (93.12), the Dutch Transavia (92.83) and the British Easyjet (91 , 28) and Norwegian (90.95). Wizzair (Hungary / 89.78), TAP (Portugal / 89.63), Ryanair (Ireland / 89.41) and Rossiya Airlines (Russia / 88.92) follow on the other places.
Swissair landed in Europe in 11th place (88.34), Lufthansa (87.9) in 15th place the USA “, explained JACDEC founder Jan-Arwed Richter. Since there was another slump in the aviation business due to a corona-related collapse in 2021 in view of an only hesitant revival of flight activities, old accidents at the airlines were also more significant this time.
Because they have not achieved sufficient passenger-kilometers this year, well-known airlines such as Austrian Airlines, Eurowings and Condor are not among the European top 25. The experts calculated a risk index of 85.7, 89.71 and 88.54 percent for them.
High levels of pollution from the pandemic
Because the corona pandemic ruined the business of many airlines again – most recently the Omikron variant caused numerous flight cancellations. Before the renewed restrictions, the general director of the IATA airline association, Willie Walsh, put the industry losses from the pandemic at a good 200 billion dollars at the beginning of October. For 2021 he expected a minus of 52 billion dollars (44.7 billion euros), for 2022 still red numbers of twelve billion dollars – until the bottom line is that the industry is back to profit in 2023.
With the drastic collapse in air traffic in 2020, airlines worldwide posted a combined loss of $ 138 billion. According to the flight safety organization Eurocontrol, all commercial air traffic in Europe last year reached 56 percent of the volume from the pre-Corona year 2019. For the year 2022, the organization is hoping for a recovery to 70 to 90 percent of the volume of 2019.