Emirates Rated Anew As World's Safest Airline

Emirates has once again been named the world's safest airline by the Hamburg-based Jet Airliner Crash Data Evaluation Center (JACDEC), Ralf E Krüger reported for Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa).

Photo Insert: Emirates has successfully defended its top ranking in a JACDEC survey carried out for aviation magazine Aero International.

The world's largest operator of double-decker Airbus A380s - the largest passenger jet in history - has successfully defended its top ranking in a JACDEC survey carried out for aviation magazine Aero International.

With a risk index of 95.05 percent, Emirates beat out its nearest rivals KLM (93.31 percent), JetBlue (91.61), Delta (91.55), and easyJet (91.28) among the 25 airlines surveyed.

For the first time, JACDEC also published regional rankings, which compare the world's largest airlines within one of four regions. On a regional level, Emirates slipped behind another Gulf airline, Etihad Airways, which due to its size did not make it onto the global list, however. In Europe, KLM (93.31) took first place, ahead of Finnair (93.16), Air Europa (93.12), Transavia (92.83), easyJet (91.28), and Norwegian (90.95).

The creation of regional categories was "primarily due to the changed size ratios, which shifted in favor of many airlines with strong domestic markets such as China or the US," explained JACDEC founder Jan-Arwed Richter.

Due to pandemic-related slumps in the aviation industry throughout 2021, as well as only a timid resurgence of passenger numbers, past airline accidents had a greater impact on results this time. Willie Walsh, director general of the International Air Travel Association (lATA) predicted the loss of the airline industry for 2021 to be $52 billion and $12 billion this year.

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