No fatalities since the early 50s. Over 60 unblemished years have allowed the Australian airline Qantas to obtain seven stars, the maximum score attributed by the site Airlinerating.com, a sort of rating agency of the skies, and therefore to be elected as the safest in the world.
In the top ten, which does not include the Italian Alitalia, there are also the neighbors of Air New Zealand, then the Middle Eastern Emirates, Etihad and Royal Jordanian, the Asian All Nippon Airways and Singapore Airlines and the British Virgin Atlantic, also all of them with the highest score. The evaluation takes into account various parameters: data on accidents but also the quality of the flights.
The analysis by Airlinerating.com also revealed that not only, as people who are afraid of flying are always told, that flying is safer than a car, but that in particular the year that has just passed, 2013, was been the safest since 1945: "only" 29 accidents and 269 deaths. Well below the average of the last ten years, which counts 719 deaths and 32 accidents. And with a dutiful clarification: one accident out of 5 took place in Africa, which, globally, however, includes only 3% of departures. In other words: the dark continent is by far the least safe to fly to, although last year, the worst disaster occurred in Russia (the Tatarstan Boeing 737 at Kazan airport).
