Originally Posted by
HR_Traveler
I won't fly on AF, they had the crash at YYZ, the mid ATL crash and they were the only airline to crash the world safest plane (concord).
The study only used data going back to 2009 so the Concord
e and YYZ crashes wouldn't be taken into consideration. Also worth noting is the following quote from
cnngo.com
Since accident rates are low in commercial aviation in general and a single incident can disproportionately affect a company’s rating, ATRA claims this benchmark provides a limited look at airlines’ overall safety performance, reported the
Daily Mail.
From a data set of the 100 most important airlines, exhaustive information dating back to 2009 was found in 44 companies in 2011, from which the top 10 were named.
Read about the methodology
here
Also note that the list is not a rank-order list. Rather regional and then alphabetical.