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We score airlines on five factors. The accident record over the last 20 years counts for 40%. Regulatory oversight (ICAO audits, FAA category, IOSA) counts for 20%, fleet age and type for 15%, serious incidents and fines in the last 10 years for 15%, and the difficulty of the network for 10%. Accident history comes from the Aviation Safety Network; every page links its sources. Any large airline here is far safer than driving to the airport, so treat the scores as relative.

All rated airlines

  1. #1 of 98

    Virgin Atlantic

    Virgin Atlantic has never had a fatal accident or lost an aircraft in more than 40 years of flying. Its fleet of 43 widebodies averaged 7.5 years at the end of 2025. The record is built on fewer flights than at big short-haul airlines, and a few in-flight technical failures since 2019 are the main blemishes.

    Score 91, grade A

  2. #2 of 98

    All Nippon Airways (ANA)

    ANA has not had a crash with deaths since 1971, flies one of the largest Boeing 787 fleets in the world and is overseen by a strong regulator. The blemish is recent and on the ground, not in the air, with falsified maintenance records found in 2025.

    Score 89, grade A

  3. #3 of 98

    easyJet

    easyJet has flown since 1995 without a fatal accident or a written-off aircraft, and now flies about 576,000 flights a year on an all-Airbus fleet. It is not an IATA member, so it relies on UK, Austrian and Swiss oversight rather than IOSA. Its weak spot is a run of take-off performance errors.

    Score 89, grade A

  4. #4 of 98

    Norwegian

    Norwegian has never had a fatal accident or lost an aircraft. It flies 95 Boeing 737s, averaging 8.5 years, under Norwegian and Swedish certificates within the EASA system. It is not an IATA member, and its recent serious incidents are mostly turbulence and an airprox that injured cabin crew.

    Score 89, grade A

  5. #5 of 98

    Qantas

    Qantas has one of the cleanest long-term records of any large airline. No passenger or crew member has died in a Qantas accident since 1951, and it has never lost a jet. The catch is an ageing fleet that is only now being replaced.

    Score 89, grade A

  6. #6 of 98

    Ryanair

    Ryanair has one of the strongest records of any budget airline. No passenger or pilot has died in a Ryanair accident in 41 years and millions of flights. It is not an IATA member, so it relies on EU oversight rather than IOSA, and a July 2026 engine failure is under investigation.

    Score 89, grade A

  7. #7 of 98

    Air New Zealand

    Air New Zealand has not had a fatal accident on its own flights since the 1979 Erebus disaster, and it has lost no aircraft since. Oversight is strong. Points go for a cluster of serious incidents on its regional turboprops since 2023 and Q300s that average 19 years old.

    Score 88, grade A

  8. #8 of 98

    KLM

    KLM has not had a fatal mainline accident since the Tenerife runway collision in 1977, and its regional arm KLM Cityhopper's last was in 1994. It is overseen within the EASA system and is IOSA-registered. Its Boeing 737s are ageing, and a 2024 runway excursion in Norway is still under investigation.

    Score 88, grade A

  9. #9 of 98

    Porter Airlines

    Porter has flown since 2006 without a fatal accident or a written-off aircraft. Its fast-growing fleet of Embraer E195-E2 jets is among the newest in North America. Two runway events with its Dash 8 turboprops, at Sault Ste. Marie in 2023 and Fredericton in 2024, keep the incidents score lower.

    Score 88, grade A

  10. #10 of 98

    Virgin Australia

    Virgin Australia has never had a fatal accident or lost an aircraft since it started as Virgin Blue in 2000, and CASA regulates it. It came through administration in 2020 and relisted in 2025. Points go for take-off and approach errors since 2022 and a fleet averaging 11.5 years.

    Score 88, grade A

  11. #11 of 98

    Vueling

    Vueling, IAG's Barcelona-based low-cost airline, has never had a fatal accident or lost an aircraft. It is overseen by Spain's AESA within the EASA system and is IOSA-registered. Its A320s average about 13 years, and Spanish investigators opened two cases on it in 2026.

    Score 88, grade A

  12. #12 of 98

    WestJet

    WestJet has never had a fatal accident, and no WestJet or WestJet Encore aircraft appears as a hull loss in the ASN records we use. A 737 landing gear collapse at St. Maarten in 2025 and three hard or tail-strike landings by Encore turboprops at Calgary in 2024 cost it points on incidents.

    Score 88, grade A

  13. #13 of 98

    Wizz Air

    Wizz Air has carried 500 million passengers without a fatal accident or a lost aircraft, and its Airbus fleet averages 4.5 years. It flies under Hungarian, Maltese and UK certificates and is not an IATA member. Recent serious incidents, including a 2025 tail strike at Prague, keep it below the best.

    Score 88, grade A

  14. #14 of 98

    Aer Lingus

    Aer Lingus has not had a fatal accident since a Viscount crashed off Tuskar Rock in 1968, and no aircraft has been written off in decades. It is overseen within the EASA system. A 2025 approach upset that it reported two months late, and ageing A320s and A330s, keep it below the top.

    Score 87, grade A

  15. #15 of 98

    Etihad Airways

    Etihad has never had a fatal accident or lost an aircraft, and it flies a modern widebody fleet under an FAA Category 1 regulator. A few turbulence injuries, a 2020 low-approach incident at Abu Dhabi and the 2026 Iran war keep it below the top tier.

    Score 87, grade A

  16. #16 of 98

    EVA Air

    EVA Air has flown since 1991 without a fatal accident or a hull loss, one of the cleanest records of any long-haul airline. A 2026 cockpit assault case and a 2025 crew death that exposed sick-leave rules are reminders that culture matters as much as hardware.

    Score 87, grade A

  17. #17 of 98

    Hawaiian Airlines

    Hawaiian has no fatal accident and no written-off aircraft in our records since it started flying in 1929, and since October 2025 it flies under Alaska Airlines' FAA certificate. Its weak points are 24-year-old Boeing 717s and a 2022 turbulence event the NTSB blamed on the crew's route.

    Score 87, grade A

  18. #18 of 98

    Lufthansa

    Lufthansa has not had a fatal accident since a runway overrun in Warsaw in 1993. It is overseen by Germany and EASA and is IOSA-registered. Its fleet is older than most rivals', and German investigators opened two cases on it in 2026.

    Score 87, grade A

  19. #19 of 98

    Qatar Airways

    Qatar Airways has never had a fatal accident and has not lost an aircraft in flight. A 2015 take-off strike at Miami, turbulence injuries and missile attacks on Doha during the 2026 Iran war keep it just below the very top.

    Score 87, grade A

  20. #20 of 98

    SAS Scandinavian Airlines

    SAS has had no fatal accident since 2001, when another aircraft strayed onto the runway at Milan Linate. Its fleet of 140 aircraft averaged 8.9 years in 2025. The weak spots are three Dash 8 landing-gear failures in 2007 and a 2026 take-off roll on a taxiway at Brussels, stopped at about 100 knots.

    Score 87, grade A

  21. #21 of 98

    Transavia

    Transavia, Air France-KLM's low-cost brand, has never had a fatal accident. It flies as two airlines, Transavia in the Netherlands and Transavia France, both under EASA rules. Its worst recent events were a 2022 hard landing at Nantes and a 2026 engine failure, and two-thirds of the fleet is still Boeing 737-800s.

    Score 87, grade A

  22. #22 of 98

    Air Europa

    Air Europa, the Madrid-based airline of the Globalia group, has never had a fatal accident or lost an aircraft, and it flies Boeing 787s and 737s under EU oversight. In July 2024 severe turbulence sent 30 people from flight UX045 to hospital, and in 2007 a fog approach at Katowice ended short of the runway.

    Score 86, grade A

  23. #23 of 98

    Air Transat

    Air Transat has never had a fatal accident, and its best-known emergency, the 2001 glide to the Azores, ended with everyone alive. It flies only Airbus jets, though its A330s are older and Pratt & Whitney engine problems keep some A321LRs grounded. Two ground collisions and a 2026 hard landing cost points.

    Score 86, grade A

  24. #24 of 98

    British Airways

    British Airways has not had a fatal accident in its own name since an air traffic control error caused a midair collision in 1976. The UK CAA is a strong regulator. Ageing Boeing 777-200ERs and two serious incidents in 2026 keep the score in the mid-80s.

    Score 86, grade A

  25. #25 of 98

    HK Express

    HK Express, Cathay Pacific's low-cost subsidiary, has no fatal accident or hull loss on record and flies a young A320-family fleet. Its one serious event is a September 2025 runway excursion in Hong Kong during a No. 8 gale signal, still under investigation.

    Score 86, grade A

  26. #26 of 98

    ITA Airways

    ITA Airways, Alitalia's successor since October 2021, has had no fatal accident and has not lost an aircraft. It flies a young Airbus fleet under Italian and EU oversight and is joining the Lufthansa Group. Two wingtip collisions while taxiing at New York JFK, both blamed on ITA crews, and a short record cost points.

    Score 86, grade A

  27. #27 of 98

    Jet2

    Jet2.com has never had a fatal accident or lost an aircraft carrying passengers. It flies under a single UK CAA certificate from 14 UK bases. The weaker part is the fleet, mostly Boeing 737-800s bought second-hand, though new A321neos now make up about a fifth of it.

    Score 86, grade A

  28. #28 of 98

    JetBlue

    JetBlue has never had a fatal accident or lost an aircraft. Its Airbus fleet is fly-by-wire throughout, though the A320s are now about 20 years old, and an A320 that pitched down on its own in October 2025 put at least 15 people in hospital.

    Score 86, grade A

  29. #29 of 98

    Azul

    Azul has had no fatal accident and lost no aircraft since its first flight in December 2008, and its fleet averages 7.3 years. It left Chapter 11 in February 2026. Points go for a run of runway incidents, including an overrun at Salvador in 2023 and a near collision at Congonhas in April 2026.

    Score 85, grade A

  30. #30 of 98

    Cathay Pacific

    Cathay Pacific has not had a fatal crash since 1967 and has lost no aircraft in an accident since then. Recent serious incidents, including an A350 engine fire in 2024 and two go-around tail strikes, and some of the oldest widebodies in Asia keep it below the very top.

    Score 85, grade A

  31. #31 of 98

    China Southern Airlines

    China Southern has not had a fatal accident since a Boeing 737 crashed at Shenzhen in May 1997, and its group fleet of 973 aircraft averages 9.4 years. The main gaps are how little China's regulator publishes about incidents and a 2024 hard landing that kept a 787 out of service for 14 months.

    Score 85, grade A

  32. #32 of 98

    Copa Airlines

    Copa has not had a fatal accident since flight 201 crashed in the Panamanian jungle in 1992, and it has not lost an aircraft since 1993. It flies only Boeing 737s from one hub in Panama City. Recent blemishes are a runway excursion at home in 2022 and a wrong-runway approach at Lima in 2025.

    Score 85, grade A

  33. #33 of 98

    Frontier Airlines

    Frontier has never had a passenger or crew member die in an accident and has never lost an aircraft, and its all-Airbus fleet averages about five years. A trespasser killed on the runway at Denver in May 2026, a damaging hard landing in San Juan and a close call at LAX keep it from a higher score.

    Score 85, grade A

  34. #34 of 98

    Hainan Airlines

    Hainan Airlines has never had a fatal accident or lost an aircraft since it began flying in 1993. Its group fleet of 367 aircraft averages 10.4 years, and like other Chinese airlines it is overseen by a regulator that publishes little about incidents.

    Score 85, grade A

  35. #35 of 98

    Singapore Airlines

    Singapore Airlines has one of the youngest fleets of any major airline and a regulator with the highest ICAO audit score ever recorded. One passenger died on SQ321 in 2024, its first death in an accident since 2000.

    Score 85, grade A

  36. #36 of 98

    Starlux Airlines

    Starlux has flown since 2020 with no accident, and its all-Airbus fleet is among the youngest in Asia. Its record is short, though, and crew events such as a bounced landing in a typhoon in 2024 and a go-around that broke company rules in 2025, show a young airline still building experience.

    Score 85, grade A

  37. #37 of 98

    Air Arabia

    Air Arabia, the Sharjah low-cost group that includes Air Arabia Abu Dhabi and Air Arabia Egypt, has never had a fatal accident and flies only Airbus A320-family jets. A 2018 take-off in the wrong direction at Sharjah and the 2026 war around its UAE hubs hold the score back.

    Score 84, grade B

  38. #38 of 98

    Air Canada

    Air Canada has not had a fatal mainline accident since a cabin fire in 1983. Its record since then includes a written-off A320 at Halifax in 2015 and a near landing on a crowded taxiway at San Francisco in 2017. The fatal LaGuardia collision of March 2026 was a Jazz flight, scored on its own page.

    Score 84, grade B

  39. #39 of 98

    Alaska Airlines

    Alaska has not had a fatal mainline accident since flight 261 in January 2000, and its 737 fleet is younger than most US rivals'. The 2024 door plug blowout was Boeing's failure, not the airline's, but a proposed FAA fine in 2026 and some of the toughest airports in the US keep it below the top.

    Score 84, grade B

  40. #40 of 98

    Delta Air Lines

    Delta's mainline has not had a passenger death in an accident since 1996, and its record across about 1,000 jets is excellent. An old mainline fleet and a run of incidents cost it points. The 2025 Toronto crash of a Delta Connection CRJ900, which everyone survived, is covered here but scored on the Endeavor Air page.

    Score 84, grade B

  41. #41 of 98

    Iberia

    Iberia has not had a fatal accident since a Boeing 727 hit a mountain near Bilbao in 1985. It wrote off an A340 at Quito in 2007 and an MD-88 at Vienna in 2008, with no deaths. EU oversight is strong; part of its short-haul fleet is old, and two 2026 events are under investigation.

    Score 84, grade B

  42. #42 of 98

    Japan Airlines (JAL)

    JAL has had no passenger death since 1985, and its crew got all 379 people out of a burning A350 after the Haneda runway collision of January 2024. Repeated pilot alcohol cases and the loss of that A350 keep it below ANA.

    Score 84, grade B

  43. #43 of 98

    Korean Air

    Korean Air had one of the worst records of any major airline until the late 1990s and has had no fatal passenger accident since. An A330 overrun at Cebu in 2022 and an ageing long-haul fleet are the weak points. In December 2026 it absorbs Asiana.

    Score 84, grade B

  44. #44 of 98

    SkyWest Airlines

    SkyWest flies about 2,260 flights a day for United, Delta, American and Alaska. No passenger has died in a SkyWest crash since 1991, and the only aircraft it lost in the last 20 years was stolen from the ground. Turbulence injuries, a few runway excursions and an older CRJ fleet keep it below the top band.

    Score 84, grade B

  45. #45 of 98

    TAP Air Portugal

    TAP has had no crash with passenger deaths since Funchal in 1977, and 71% of its Airbus fleet is new-generation. Two motorcyclists were killed on the runway at Conakry in 2022. Two approaches that descended far too low, at Madrid in 2023 and Prague in 2026, are the main concern.

    Score 84, grade B

  46. #46 of 98

    flynas

    flynas, Saudi Arabia's largest low-cost airline, has never had a fatal accident or lost an aircraft, and nine in ten of its jets are A320neos. Against that, an unstable approach ended in a runway excursion at Riyadh in 2024, and Houthi strikes hit Riyadh and Abha airports, both on its network, in October 2026.

    Score 83, grade B

  47. #47 of 98

    Aerolíneas Argentinas

    Aerolíneas Argentinas, the state-owned flag carrier, has had no fatal accident and lost no aircraft in the last 20 years; the group's last fatal crash was Austral flight 2553 in 1997. Points go for in-flight engine failures, turbulence injuries on long flights and a fleet averaging about 12 years.

    Score 82, grade B

  48. #48 of 98

    American Airlines

    American's mainline has had no fatal crash since 2001. But American Eagle 5342, flown by its own subsidiary PSA Airlines, was destroyed with 64 people in a midair collision over Washington in January 2025, and 2025 brought a run of engine fires and evacuations.

    Score 82, grade B

  49. #49 of 98

    Swiss International Air Lines

    Swiss has not lost an aircraft since it started flying in 2002, and it is overseen by Switzerland's FOCA within the EASA system. Its record is marked by one death, a flight attendant who died after the engine failure and smoke on flight LX1885 in December 2024, and by repeated engine trouble on its Airbus A220s.

    Score 82, grade B

  50. #50 of 98

    Emirates

    In more than 40 years, no passenger has died in an Emirates accident, and the all-widebody fleet is modern. A 2016 hull loss, a near-miss over Dubai in 2021 and missile and drone attacks on the Gulf in 2026 keep it below the very top.

    Score 81, grade B

  51. #51 of 98

    IndiGo

    IndiGo has flown since 2006 without a fatal accident or a hull loss, on one of the youngest fleets in the world. Its weak points are a run of Pratt & Whitney engine failures, a 2023 near miss at Delhi and the December 2025 rostering collapse that brought a record regulatory fine.

    Score 81, grade B

  52. #52 of 98

    Royal Air Maroc

    Royal Air Maroc has not lost an aircraft since 2003 or had a fatal accident since 1994, when investigators found the captain crashed an ATR 42 on purpose. It is IOSA-registered and Morocco holds FAA Category 1. Two runway incursions, at Marrakesh in 2023 and Casablanca in 2024, are the main recent concern.

    Score 81, grade B

  53. #53 of 98

    Vietnam Airlines

    Vietnam Airlines has had no fatal crash since 1997 and flies a mostly modern Airbus and Boeing fleet. Its record now carries one serious mark, the August 2026 take-off at Munich, where a 787-9 lifted off from the grass beyond the runway with its brakes partly applied. German investigators have not yet said why.

    Score 81, grade B

  54. #54 of 98

    Air China

    Air China has not had a fatal accident since a Boeing 767 crashed near Busan in April 2002. Since then it has written off two widebodies in ground accidents at Beijing and drawn a CAAC penalty in 2018 after a co-pilot's vaping led to a rapid descent.

    Score 80, grade B

  55. #55 of 98

    Akasa Air

    Akasa Air has flown since 2022 without an accident, on an all-new fleet of 42 Boeing 737 MAX jets. The record is short, though, and in 2024 the DGCA fined it for training lapses and issued three show-cause notices in a month.

    Score 80, grade B

  56. #56 of 98

    China Airlines

    Taiwan's flag carrier had one of the worst records in the world between 1994 and 2002, with four fatal crashes. It has had no fatal accident since, and its fleet is modernising. Recent incidents, including a 2025 fine over an engine-failure diversion and a wrong-runway landing, keep the score down.

    Score 80, grade B

  57. #57 of 98

    SkyUp Airlines

    SkyUp has had no fatal accident since it began flying in 2018, and its Ukrainian certificate is IOSA-registered and EASA-authorised. With Ukrainian airspace closed, it flies from Chișinău and on lease to other airlines. Its Boeing 737-800s are older than most European budget fleets.

    Score 80, grade B

  58. #58 of 98

    Xiamen Airlines

    Xiamen Airlines has had no fatal accident caused by its own operation; its one fatal event was a hijacking in 1990. Its weak spot is the 2018 Manila runway excursion, where investigators found the captain continued an unstable approach and ignored the first officer's call to go around.

    Score 80, grade B

  59. #59 of 98

    Avianca

    Avianca had a terrible run between 1983 and 1990, with three fatal crashes and a bombing, but no fatal accident in the 36 years since. It flies Airbus A320-family jets and Boeing 787s under Colombia's Aerocivil, and since 2022 has been part of Abra Group with Brazil's Gol.

    Score 79, grade B

  60. #60 of 98

    Vietjet

    Vietjet, Vietnam's largest airline by fleet, has had no fatal accident and no aircraft written off since 2011. It flies young Airbus jets and is an IATA member. Its weak point is landings, with pilot errors that led Vietnam's regulator to put it under special supervision in 2018, and runway excursions since.

    Score 79, grade B

  61. #61 of 98

    Aeroméxico

    No one on board an Aeroméxico flight has died since a 1986 mid-air collision over Los Angeles; a 2000 overrun at Reynosa killed four people on the ground. Its latest hull loss was an Aeroméxico Connect E190 at Durango in 2018. Its fleet is young (8.6 years) and Mexico regained FAA Category 1 in September 2023.

    Score 78, grade B

  62. #62 of 98

    Gol

    Gol's only fatal accident is flight 1907 in 2006, when a business jet with its transponder off struck its 737 over the Amazon; investigators blamed the other crew and air traffic control. Gol has lost no aircraft since. It flies only Boeing 737s, regulated by Brazil's ANAC, and left Chapter 11 in June 2025.

    Score 78, grade B

  63. #63 of 98

    United Airlines

    United has not had a fatal crash on a mainline flight in decades, and the FAA found no significant safety issues in its 2024 review. But it has had more serious incidents than its peers since 2024, including a 767 that clipped a truck on approach to Newark in May 2026, and its fleet is the oldest of the big three.

    Score 78, grade B

  64. #64 of 98

    Air France

    Air France has had one fatal accident in 20 years, the loss of AF447 over the Atlantic in 2009, and was convicted of corporate manslaughter over it on appeal in May 2026. EASA oversight and a renewing fleet help; the BEA's findings on procedural discipline hold the score back.

    Score 77, grade B

  65. #65 of 98

    Philippine Airlines

    Philippine Airlines has not had a fatal crash on a passenger flight in more than 25 years, and its regulator has been back in FAA Category 1 since 2014. The score is held back by overruns and excursions on wet provincial runways, mostly at regional arm PAL Express, and by a mixed fleet.

    Score 77, grade B

  66. #66 of 98

    Southwest Airlines

    Southwest has carried billions of passengers with one passenger death in an accident, on flight 1380 in 2018. Its weak spots are a cluster of serious incidents since 2024, including two approaches that came far too low, and a fleet of 737s with no fly-by-wire.

    Score 77, grade B

  67. #67 of 98

    Thai Airways

    Thai Airways has had no fatal crash since 1998. Two widebodies were written off in runway excursions at Bangkok in 2013 and 2018, and Thailand only regained FAA Category 1 in April 2025. The airline left court rehabilitation in 2025 and is growing its fleet again.

    Score 77, grade B

  68. #68 of 98

    Cebu Pacific

    Cebu Pacific, the largest airline in the Philippines, has had no fatal accident since a DC-9 hit a mountain in 1998, and most of its jets are new Airbus neos. Its weak point is a long run of runway excursions at provincial airports, several of them at Iloilo and Butuan.

    Score 76, grade B

  69. #69 of 98

    Endeavor Air

    Endeavor is Delta's own regional airline and flies Delta Connection CRJs. Nobody has died on an Endeavor flight in 20 years, but in February 2025 one of its jets landed hard at Toronto and ended upside down, with 21 people hurt. A run of wing-tip strikes and taxiing collisions since then keeps its score in the mid-70s.

    Score 76, grade B

  70. #70 of 98

    Jazz Aviation

    Jazz flies most Air Canada Express routes. In March 2026 one of its CRJ-900s hit a fire truck that controllers had cleared across the runway at LaGuardia, killing both pilots. Before that it had no fatal accident since forming in 2001, though two aircraft were written off in ground and landing accidents.

    Score 76, grade B

  71. #71 of 98

    Batik Air

    Batik Air (Indonesia) and Batik Air Malaysia, the Lion Group's full-service airlines, have never had a fatal accident. The score is held back by crew lapses. In 2024 both pilots of an A320 fell asleep for 28 minutes, and a 737 flew below the safe altitude approaching Canberra.

    Score 75, grade B

  72. #72 of 98

    Saudia

    Saudia, the Saudi national airline, has not had a fatal crash since 1996 and flies a mostly modern fleet. But it has written off eight aircraft since 2008, several of them on aircraft leased from other airlines, and in October 2026 Houthi strikes hit Abha and Riyadh airports, both on its network.

    Score 75, grade B

  73. #73 of 98

    Asiana Airlines

    Asiana has had no fatal accident since 2013, but OZ214, a fatal cargo fire in 2011 and an A320 written off at Hiroshima in 2015 give it a weaker record than Korean Air. Asiana is merging into Korean Air, and the OZ code ends in December 2026.

    Score 73, grade B

  74. #74 of 98

    flydubai

    flydubai flies one of the youngest fleets in the region, and the Dubai regulator has FAA Category 1 status. But the 2016 Rostov-on-Don crash killed all 62 on board, and on 30 September 2026 a fight on the flight deck of FZ1073 sent a 737 MAX into a steep dive.

    Score 73, grade B

  75. #75 of 98

    LATAM Airlines

    LATAM is a group of airlines in Chile, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Paraguay, each with its own certificate. Its worst crash, TAM 3054 at São Paulo in 2007, killed 199. All its airlines passed a joint IOSA audit in 2025, and the passenger fleet averages 11.9 years.

    Score 73, grade B

  76. #76 of 98

    PSA Airlines

    PSA flies CRJ regional jets as American Eagle and is owned by American Airlines. In January 2025 one of its jets collided with an Army helicopter at Washington National and all 64 on board died. The NTSB blamed the FAA, the Army and air traffic control, not PSA, but the loss still weighs on its record.

    Score 73, grade B

  77. #77 of 98

    Azerbaijan Airlines

    AZAL's Embraer 190 on flight 8243 crashed at Aktau on 25 December 2024, killing 38, after being hit by fragments that Azerbaijan and Russia's president attribute to Russian air defence. We record it as an attack, not an accident. AZAL is IOSA-registered and not EU-listed, but it flies near an active conflict zone.

    Score 72, grade B

  78. #78 of 98

    Pegasus Airlines

    Pegasus flies a young, 88% new-generation Airbus fleet and is IOSA-registered. But in two years it lost two Boeing 737-800s in runway accidents, at Trabzon in 2018 and at Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen in 2020, where three passengers died. That record weighs more than the fleet.

    Score 72, grade B

  79. #79 of 98

    China Eastern Airlines

    China Eastern lost a Boeing 737-800 and all 132 people on board on flight MU5735 in March 2022, and China's regulator has published no cause and no update since March 2024. Apart from that crash, the airline flies a fairly young fleet of 833 aircraft under an FAA Category 1 regulator.

    Score 71, grade B

  80. #80 of 98

    Malaysia Airlines

    Malaysia Airlines lost two Boeing 777s in 2014. MH370 disappeared with 239 people and has never been found; MH17 was shot down over Ukraine. Since then it has had no fatal accident, its regulator is back in FAA Category 1, and new A330neos and 737-8s are replacing older jets.

    Score 71, grade B

  81. #81 of 98

    Turkish Airlines

    Turkish Airlines flies a modern fleet to more countries than any other airline, and it is IOSA-registered. But it has written off five aircraft since 2009, one of them in a fatal crash and one a freighter, so its record is weaker than Europe's big network airlines.

    Score 71, grade B

  82. #82 of 98

    EgyptAir

    EgyptAir lost flight MS804 over the Mediterranean in May 2016 with all 66 people on board; Egypt and France still disagree on why. It is IOSA-registered, not on the EU Air Safety List, and Egypt holds FAA Category 1. New A350s, 787s and A320neos are replacing older jets, but little is published about its incidents.

    Score 70, grade B

  83. #83 of 98

    Garuda Indonesia

    Garuda Indonesia has had no fatal accident since flight GA200 overran at Yogyakarta in 2007, killing 21. Its record since then is mostly runway and landing events. The bigger concern now is money, after aircraft were parked for lack of maintenance funds in 2025, and an ageing fleet with no new deliveries.

    Score 70, grade B

  84. #84 of 98

    Kenya Airways

    Kenya Airways' last fatal crash was KQ507, a 737-800 that went down after take-off from Douala in May 2007, killing all 114. It is IOSA-registered and Kenya holds FAA Category 1. Engine shortages grounded three 787s in 2026, and a 737 ran off the runway at Hargeisa in July 2026 without injuries.

    Score 69, grade C

  85. #85 of 98

    AirAsia

    AirAsia is a brand flown by separate airlines in Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines, plus long-haul AirAsia X. The group's one fatal crash, Indonesia AirAsia QZ8501 in 2014, killed 162. The fleet is almost all Airbus A320-family, but oversight quality differs by country.

    Score 68, grade C

  86. #86 of 98

    Jeju Air

    Jeju Air's 2024 Muan crash was the deadliest air accident in South Korea. Investigators say the crew shut down the less damaged engine, and the government admits the concrete berm at the runway end broke the rules. The airline has since cut flying and is renewing its fleet.

    Score 68, grade C

  87. #87 of 98

    Ethiopian Airlines

    Ethiopian is Africa's largest and most professional airline, with a young fleet, IOSA registration and a regulator rated well by ICAO. But it has had two crashes in 16 years in which everyone died, ET409 in 2010 and ET302 in 2019, and pilots fell asleep on an approach in 2022.

    Score 63, grade C

  88. #88 of 98

    SpiceJet

    SpiceJet has never had a fatal crash, but it has written off three aircraft since 2015, and India's regulator has put it under enhanced surveillance in 2022, 2023 and 2024 over maintenance and finances. In 2026 it flies a small, old active fleet while lessors pursue it in insolvency court.

    Score 63, grade C

  89. #89 of 98

    Pobeda

    Aeroflot's low-cost airline has had no fatal accidents and flies a single type, the Boeing 737-800. But it has been on the EU Air Safety List since 2022, it has no IOSA registration, and US sanctions have cut its 737s off from Boeing parts and support.

    Score 59, grade C

  90. #90 of 98

    Air India Express

    Air India Express, Air India's low-cost arm, has had two fatal overrun crashes on tabletop runways, in 2010 and 2020, and India's investigators found systemic failures in its training and management. Since 2024 it has absorbed AirAsia India and is replacing old 737-800s with new 737-8s.

    Score 58, grade C

  91. #91 of 98

    Air India

    Air India lost a Boeing 787 with 241 of 242 people on board at Ahmedabad in June 2025, and the cause is still unknown. India's regulator has since found repeated breaches of crew rest and airworthiness rules, and subsidiary Air India Express had fatal crashes in 2010 and 2020.

    Score 57, grade C

  92. #92 of 98

    S7 Airlines

    S7 has had no fatal accident since its A310 overran the runway at Irkutsk in 2006, killing 125. Since 2022 it has been on the EU Air Safety List and under a US export denial order, and sanctions have grounded most of its A320neo jets because their engines cannot be serviced.

    Score 56, grade C

  93. #93 of 98

    Lion Air

    Lion Air, Indonesia's largest airline, has a much weaker record than Garuda Indonesia or AirAsia. Its 737 MAX crashed in October 2018, killing 189, after a known fault went unlogged, and it has written off six other jets since 2006. It is now IOSA-audited and has had no major accident since 2018.

    Score 54, grade D

  94. #94 of 98

    Aeroflot

    Aeroflot's last fatal crash was the 2019 Superjet fire at Sheremetyevo (41 killed). Since 2022 it has been on the EU Air Safety List, under a US export denial order and cut off from Western parts and support. Its fleet is fairly young, but it now relies on in-house repairs and substitute parts.

    Score 50, grade D

  95. #95 of 98

    Mahan Air

    Mahan Air has no fatal accident on record. But it has been under a US export denial order since 2008 and Treasury sanctions since 2011, it flies old Airbus jets and smuggled Boeing 777s, it has no IOSA audit, and its home airspace was struck in 2026.

    Score 49, grade D

  96. #96 of 98

    Iran Air

    Iran Air's last fatal crash was a Boeing 727 at Urmia in 2011 (78 killed), and it has written off four Fokker 100s since 1998. US sanctions have kept it from buying parts and new aircraft for most of 15 years, the EU bars two of its types, and Iranian airspace was a war zone in 2026.

    Score 44, grade D

  97. #97 of 98

    Pakistan International Airlines (PIA)

    PIA has had three fatal crashes in 20 years, and investigators found maintenance and training failures behind two of them. Europe suspended it from 2020 to 2024 over Pakistan's pilot licensing, and the UK until 2025. New private owners took over in 2026; in April 2026 only 18 of its 30 ageing aircraft were operational.

    Score 39, grade F

  98. #98 of 98

    Yeti Airlines

    Yeti lost an ATR 72 at Pokhara in January 2023, killing all 72, after a pilot moved both condition levers to feather; a Twin Otter crashed at Lukla in 2008. Every Nepali airline is on the EU Air Safety List, Yeti has no IOSA audit, and sister airline Tara Air has had three fatal crashes since 2010.

    Score 37, grade F