Air New Zealand world’s safest airline for 2022

Thursday, January 6, 2022

Air New Zealand has topped an annual list of the safest airlines in the world for 2022 as coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continue to dominate the conversation around air safety.



An airline safety and product review website, announced its top 20 safest airlines in the world and top ten safest low-cost airlines for 2022 from the 385 airlines it monitors.

Air New Zealand is a stand-out airline with a firm focus on safety and its customers and over the past 18 months, COVID-19 has brought another new dimension to the challenges the industry faces, as quoted by the Australia-based website.

Air New Zealand has excelled across the broad safety spectrum never losing sight of the smallest detail while caring for its flight crews who have worked under significant stress.

Qantas was at the top position in the safest airlines in the world last year but slipped to seventh due to an incident at Perth Airport in 2018.


The portal said that the report on the serious incident was not issued till late 2020, due to which it was left out from the 2021 safety rankings.

Here’s the list of the top 20 safest airlines in the world:

Air New Zealand

Etihad Airways

Qatar Airways

Singapore Airlines

TAP Air Portugal

SAS

Qantas

Alaska Airlines

EVA Air

Virgin Australia/Atlantic

Cathay Pacific Airways

Hawaiian Airlines

American Airlines

Lufthansa/Swiss Group

Finnair

Air France/KLM Group

British Airways

Delta Air Lines

United Airlines

Emirates

The top 10 safest low-cost airlines in the world, in alphabetical order, are Allegiant, easyjet, Frontier, Jetstar Group, Jetblue, Ryanair, Vietjet, Volaris, Westjet, and Wizz.

Factors like incident records over the past two years, crash records over the past five years, results of audits conducted by the International Civil Aviation Organisation have been considered to decide the top 10 safest low-cost airlines.

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