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Old Feb 6, 2014 | 9:39 am
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Originally Posted by LonLH
Again, this is anecdote not substantiated by facts- EK is ranked among the safest airlines in the world (way ahead of LH by your friends in JACDEC)- I don't know how inexperienced, poor quality pilots can fly beasts like 380 and 777 safely. And they have plenty of daily flights, so if cockpit crew was substandard it should show up in the safety record.
EY also has high safety ranking, but they have not been around as long as EK.
Indeed. While both Emirates and Ethiad made the list of the top 10 safest airlines for 2013, not one company in the Lufthansa group made the cut.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/todayi...rline/4407391/
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