Ratings agency releases list of world's 10 safest airlines; JAL safest in Asia

The agency explained that to understand airline safety, one needed not only to look at accident figures, but also “technical, human, organizational and external” elements.

Ha, what a joke. Not looking at accident figures skews the figures as well. I don't see why JAL would be so secure. They had quite a lot of accidents and near calls in recent memory. They have their own Wiki-page with incidents and accidents. Compared to i.e. ANA who hasn't had an accident since 1971... I guess this report has been ordered.

JAL ranked ahead of ANA?

Until we actually know what the 15 'criteria' are, I see little point on anyone posting pointless comments..as above.

ATRA is a private agency, doing this for profit. It's just like Moodys or S & P, selling information to their clients.

ATRA solutions products and services provide air transport market stakeholders with greater insight into the growing complexity of air safety issues to enable more timely and informed business and investment decisions.

Their 15 criteria are:

Net financial result Total number of passengers Total number of employees Total number of cabin crew employees Total number of aircrafts Average fleet age in service Percentage of aircrafts on order Fleet homogeneity Number of aircrafts no longer in production Number of aircrafts considered at risk Total aircrafts-km flown In house maintenance capability Number of accidents during the last 10 years Dedicated flight academy pilot-training facilities Dedicated full flight simulators

I would like to see the blacklist

@gogogo me too but at the moment i am deleting JAL from the above list.

@melguy, thanks for the info. They are good to know facts.

Hope they can add a risk response management against terrorists on the list you have mentioned like US flights. I still feel comfortable to fly in with US flag airlines as the risk managements are well in place (I cannot disclose the detail here).