Every year the Hamburg flight safety office JACDEC, in cooperation with the aviation magazine Aero International, examines the safety on board of a total of 100 airlines. This year, too, first place goes to Emirates - the golf airline remains the safest airline in the world.

With a risk index of 94,75 percent, it is again just ahead of another golf airline, Etihad Airways (94,73 percent). The low-cost airline Scoot from Singapore, whose parent company Singapore Airlines is only in 21st place, surprisingly came in third. The Spanish Air Europa (4th place) and Finnair (5) also defended their positions, ahead of the two Dutch companies KLM (6) and Transavia (7). The well-known low-cost airline Easyjet from Great Britain ranks 13th with 91,12 percent. For the German-speaking candidates, it was again only enough for a place in the midfield. As the safest German airline, Eurowings ranks 90,10th with a risk index of 28 percent. Parent company Lufthansa ranks 2019th this year after an accident on the ground with a total loss in 57.

In view of the greatly reduced flight activities, the table has only limited informative value this time, reports the ORF. Because the passenger kilometers flown by the airlines would play an important role in the assessment. The following applies: the more an airline can travel without an accident, the safer it is in this ranking. In 2020, as is well known, there were strong cancellations in flight activities due to the Corona.