Top 10 most unsafe airline companies

Last week Ryanair has been discredited since they were accused of disregarding flight safety for commercial benefit by flying planes with near-empty fuel tanks. In addition KLM has been criticized of the same behaviour by Dutch politician Farshad Bashir. Therefore we have compiled a list of the safest and most unsafe airlines. A list that is published every year by a German company called Jadec.

The list includes the sixty largest international airline companies and is based on the number of incidents with airplanes from these airlines.

Top 10 most safe airlines:

1.     All Nippon Airways

2.     Finnair

3.     Cathay Pacific Airways

4.     Etihad Airways

5.     Hainan Airlines

6.     JetBlue Airways

7.     Emirates

8.     Virgin Blue

9.     Air Berlin

10.  Air New Zealand

Top 10 most unsafe airlines:

1.     EgyptAir

2.     TAM Airlines

3.     China Airlines

4.     Air India

5.     GOL Transportes Aéreos

6.     Garuda Indonesia

7.     Korean Air

8.     Turkish Airlines

9.     Saudi Arabian Airlines

10.  Philippine Airlines

Complete list of all sixty airlines that are monitored.

1.     All Nippon Airways

2.     Finnair

3.     Cathay Pacific Airways

4.     Etihad Airways

5.     Hainan Airlines

6.     JetBlue Airways

7.     Emirates

8.     Virgin Blue

9.     Air Berlin

10.  Air New Zealand

11.  Quantas

12.  Lufthansa

13.  British Airways

14.  EVA Air

15.  Transaero Airlines

16.  TAP Portugal

17.  Thomas Cook Airlines

18.  Virgin Atlantic Airways

19.  EasyJet

20.  Southwest Airlines

21.  WestJet

22.  Qatar Airways

23.  KLM

24.  Air Canada

25.  Thomsonfly

26.  Delta Airlines

27.  Singapore Airlines

28.  Ryanair

29.  United Airlines

30.  Swiss

31.  AirAsia

32.  Malaysia Airlines

33.  China Eastern Airlines

34.  Alitalia

35.  Aeroflot - Russian Airlines

36.  Jet Airways

37.  LAN Airlines

38.  American Airlines

39.  Air France

40.  Air China

41.  US Airways

42.  Alaska Airlines

43.  Asiana Airlines

44.  Japan Airlines

45.  Iberia

46.  China Southern Airlines

47.  SAS Scandinavian Airlines

48.  South African Airlines

49.  SkyWest Airlines (USA)

50.  Thai Airways International

51.  Philippine Airlines

52.  Saudi Arabian Airlines

53.  Turkish Airlines

54.  Korean Air

55.  Garuda Indonesia

56.  GOL Transportes Aéreos

57.  Air India

58.  China Airlines

59.  TAM Airlines

60.  Egyptair

Source: Jadec