Air Canada does not make top 20 list of safest airlines
Jan 5, 2016, 6:31 pm
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Air Canada does not make top 20 list of safest airlines
AirlineRatings.com, the world’s only safety and product rating website, which was launched in June 2013, has announced its top twenty safest airlines and top ten safest low cost airlines for 2016 from the 407 it monitors.
Top of the list for the third year is Australia’s Qantas, which has a fatality free record in the jet era – an extraordinary record. Making up the remainder of the top twenty in alphabetical order are:
Air New Zealand, Alaska Airlines, All Nippon Airlines, American Airlines, Cathay Pacific Airways, Emirates, Etihad Airways, EVA Air, Finnair, Hawaiian Airlines, Japan Airlines, KLM, Lufthansa, Scandinavian Airline System, Singapore Airlines, Swiss, United Airlines, Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Australia.
Top of the list for the third year is Australia’s Qantas, which has a fatality free record in the jet era – an extraordinary record. Making up the remainder of the top twenty in alphabetical order are:
Air New Zealand, Alaska Airlines, All Nippon Airlines, American Airlines, Cathay Pacific Airways, Emirates, Etihad Airways, EVA Air, Finnair, Hawaiian Airlines, Japan Airlines, KLM, Lufthansa, Scandinavian Airline System, Singapore Airlines, Swiss, United Airlines, Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Australia.
http://www.airlineratings.com/news/6...rline-for-2016
Jan 5, 2016, 6:48 pm
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Jan 5, 2016, 9:11 pm
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Further, annual ratings really make no sense given the small probabilities involved.
Finally, differences between the top airlines are likely insignificant enough to make them meaningless.
None of this meant to defend AC. There may well have been good reasons to lower them on the list.
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These things are useless if methodology is unclear.
Further, annual ratings really make no sense given the small probabilities involved.
Finally, differences between the top airlines are likely insignificant enough to make them meaningless.
None of this meant to defend AC. There may well have been good reasons to lower them on the list.
Further, annual ratings really make no sense given the small probabilities involved.
Finally, differences between the top airlines are likely insignificant enough to make them meaningless.
None of this meant to defend AC. There may well have been good reasons to lower them on the list.
Jan 5, 2016, 11:41 pm
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The ratings are a summation of the existing data. The rating system is transparent in the sense that it lists the sources of the data. The results provide a strong and reliable indication of the safety rating of the airlines. It shows that there are many airlines just as safe or safer than AC.
There will always be those who wish to denigrate an airline based upon safety.For example, I saw it with West Jet. The ratings show that West Jet is a safe option.
There will always be those who wish to denigrate an airline based upon safety.For example, I saw it with West Jet. The ratings show that West Jet is a safe option.
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Jan 6, 2016, 5:31 am
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Westjet makes it in to the top 10 list for LCC's.
http://www.airlineratings.com/news/6...rline-for-2016
http://www.airlineratings.com/news/6...rline-for-2016
Jan 6, 2016, 5:33 am
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And to avoid any hysterical responses, I am not saying AC's planes are flying death traps or that they are dangerous. Dangerous are airlines that insist on using MD series planes that should have been retired long ago. However, if an airline has a constant number of mechanical reliability issues, it's not going to help the safety rating. No doubt that once AC takes delivery of its new equipment, this will be reflected in a decrease in the regular breakdowns of the aging fleet.
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A quick scan of incident reports shows that AC has a constant number of basic maintenance and reliability issues. Examples are hydraulic system failures, bleed issues, gear and flaps issues. One doesn't see such issues with such regularity with a Qantas or EVA. The mechanical issues are a reflection of the aircraft fleets, their age, the maintenance and the type of routes. Mechanical reliability is part of the safety characteristic.
And to avoid any hysterical responses, I am not saying AC's planes are flying death traps or that they are dangerous. Dangerous are airlines that insist on using MD series planes that should have been retired long ago. However, if an airline has a constant number of mechanical reliability issues, it's not going to help the safety rating. No doubt that once AC takes delivery of its new equipment, this will be reflected in a decrease in the regular breakdowns of the aging fleet.
And to avoid any hysterical responses, I am not saying AC's planes are flying death traps or that they are dangerous. Dangerous are airlines that insist on using MD series planes that should have been retired long ago. However, if an airline has a constant number of mechanical reliability issues, it's not going to help the safety rating. No doubt that once AC takes delivery of its new equipment, this will be reflected in a decrease in the regular breakdowns of the aging fleet.
The basic maintenance issues you list are more attributable to aircraft design issues which AC has no control over.
I would be concerned with an airline that isn't reporting mechanical issues on their airplane. The fact that AC reports these incidents shows of the strong safety culture in Canada.
Once they take delivery of new airplanes its typical to actually see an increase in the number of issues due to infant mortality issues.
Qantas essentially wrote-off an A380 a few years ago but spent hundreds of millions of dollars to fix it just to keep their track record of no hull-losses. Not a knock against Qantas because Australia also has a great reporting system, but again a design issue with the aircraft.