Source Article: By Nate Silver, Filed under Airline Safety www.fivethirtyeight.com
Safety scores of International Airlines in order of worst airlines from year 1985 to 2014
Airlines | Safety scores |
Aeroflot | -2.26 |
Ethiopian Airlines | -1.69 |
Pakistan International | -1.49 |
China Airlines | -1.38 |
Garuda Indonesia | -0.81 |
Egypt Air | -0.75 |
Kenya Airways | -0.74 |
Avianca | -0.71 |
Philippine Airlines | -0.63 |
Royal Air Marco | -0.48 |
Malaysia Airlines | -0.42 |
Air India | -0.35 |
Vietnam Airlines | -0.26 |
Gulf Air | -0.23 |
Xiamen Airlines | -0.17 |
TAM | -0.15 |
TACA | -0.13 |
US Air Ways / America West | -0.13 |
Korean Air | -0.12 |
Saudi Arabian | -0.04 |
Alitalia | -0.01 |
SAS | -0.01 |
Thai Airways | +0.01 |
SriLankan Airlines | +0.01 |
Swiss | +0.05 |
Aeromexican | +0.08 |
South African | +0.11 |
Japan Airlines | +0.14 |
Turkish Airlines | +0.14 |
Air France | +0.16 |
Aerolineas Argentinas | +0.19 |
EI AI | +0.19 |
Alaska Airlines | +0.20 |
Condor | +0.22 |
COPA | +0.22 |
Air New Zealand | +0.23 |
Iberia | +0.24 |
Delta/ Northwest | +0.31 |
Aer Lingus | +0.33 |
American | +0.33 |
Austrian Airlines | +0.35 |
LAN Airlines | +0.37 |
Hawaiian Airlines | +0.44 |
Finnair | +0.45 |
Tap – Air Portugal | +0.51 |
All Nippon Airways | +0.57 |
Singapore Airlines | +0.59 |
Virgin Atlantic= | +0.60 |
KLM | +0.61 |
United Continental | +0.67 |
Qantas | +0.71 |
Air Canada | +0.73 |
Cathay Pacific | +0.88 |
Lufthansa | +0.88 |
Bristish Airways | +0.88 |
South west Airlines | +0.9 |
Incidents, Fatal Incidents & Fatalities of International Airlines from 1985- 2014 in order of maximum incidents
Airlines | Incidents | Fatal Incidents | Fatalities |
Aeroflot | 89 | 16 | 234 |
Ethiopian Airlines | 80 | 18 | 688 |
Pakistan International | 67 | 19 | 1036 |
Royal Air Maroc | 35 | 13 | 221 |
Xiamen Airlines | 33 | 4 | 244 |
Garuda Indonesia | 30 | 10 | 591 |
Philippine Airlines | 28 | 15 | 233 |
EgyptAir | 28 | 9 | 681 |
Saudi Arabian | 27 | 3 | 467 |
Aerolineas Argentinas | 23 | 0 | 0 |
China Air Lines | 22 | 11 | 1210 |
Alitalia | 21 | 4 | 92 |
SAS | 21 | 2 | 214 |
TACA | 20 | 10 | 30 |
Kenya Airways | 19 | 10 | 1,353 |
Aeromexico | 17 | 2 | 137 |
Gulf Air | 17 | 4 | 629 |
Avianca | 16 | 10 | 1,043 |
Vietnam Airlines | 16 | 6 | 351 |
US Airways / America West | 14 | 5 | 129 |
Alaska Airlines | 14 | 1 | 121 |
Air New Zealand | 14 | 2 | 13 |
TAM | 13 | 5 | 248 |
Turkish Airlines | 10 | 3 | 99 |
Delta / Northwest | 10 | 2 | 90 |
Iberia | 10 | 1 | 162 |
Korean Air | 9 | 4 | 314 |
Air france | 9 | 2 | 183 |
American | 9 | 1 | 131 |
Air India | 9 | 3 | 726 |
Aer Lingus | 8 | 0 | 0 |
Thai Airways | 8 | 3 | 233 |
Malaysia AirLines | 8 | 4 | 727 |
Swiss | 8 | 2 | 370 |
COPA | 7 | 2 | 109 |
All Nippon Airways | 7 | 0 | 0 |
Condor | 6 | 3 | 49 |
United / Continental | 6 | 1 | 77 |
KLM | 5 | 0 | 2 |
British Airways | 5 | 0 | 0 |
LAN Airlines | 4 | 3 | 27 |
Ei Al | 4 | 4 | 15 |
Austrian Airlines | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Finnair | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Lufthansa | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Hawaiian Airlines | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Qantas | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Southwest Airlines | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Japan Airlines | 2 | 1 | 423 |
SirLankan Airlines | 2 | 2 | 49 |
Air Canada | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Virgin Atlantic | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Cathay Pacific | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Tap – Air Portugal | 0 | 0 | 0 |