Just read this. Hope it isn't offtopic for here:

http://www.airlineratings.com/news/630/who-are-the-worlds-safest-airlines-for-2016

Pure statistics are useless in determining a safety record.

Qantas has a couple of hundred aircraft, but several American airlines have 700+.

The total jet airline hours flown by Australian airlines hasn't yet reached the total flown by the American airlines until about 1960, so we're looking at skewed results.

Innovation and acceptance of new technology are equally unreliable because other airlines adopt it so fast if it is of value to safety. Very few lag behind if airline managements can see value for their operations.

There are dozens, probably hundreds, of airlines that don't have a fatal crash in any year, so any comparison on that criteria alone is worthless.

There are so many other ratings of airlines, most on service and schedule, not safety, that I believe there is a total lack of credibility associated with the entire ratings 'industry'.

Edited January 7, 201610 yr by F4UCorsair

Read the article. They didn't just use 'pure statistics'

How can Ryanair or Easyjet be possibly not in the top 10 of Low Cost Carriers when neither have ever lost an Aircraft !!

Ridiculous survey

Edited January 8, 201610 yr by Chivas

Who funded the survey?