独立航空公司评级网站AirlineRatings公布年度20家最安全的航空公司，澳大利亚航空公司（Qantas）连续第四年蝉联榜首，新加坡航空公司也榜上有名，而美国航空和阿联酋航空则跌出20大。

美国《有线电视新闻网》5日引述该网站表示，网站就425家航空公司进行调查，澳大利亚航空在飞安方面名列前茅。

自2013年起，每年推出排行榜的AirlineRatings表示，澳大利亚航空启航以来不曾有过人员死亡的记录。

网站编辑Geoffrey Thomas表示，入榜的20大最安全航空公司，在安全和运作上不断创新和维持卓越表现，他们也采用较新型的客机如 A350、787和777X。

他表示，澳大利亚航空在公司的96年历史里，无论在安全和运作上都是业内一流的，现在也被英国广告标准局列为最有经验的航空公司。

AirlineRatings也表示，澳大利亚航空在几方面都站在领导位置，如发展未来空中导航系统、使用飞行数据记录仪来监察飞机与机组人员表现、使用全球导航卫星系统进行自动降落，以及利用所需导航性能（RNP）在云层里精准地在山脉中飞航等。

新加坡航空也被评为20大最安全航空公司之一。　

AirlineRatings排名航空公司时，会把民航监管机构、主要协会、政府审计和航空公司的死亡率记录等列入考虑之内。同时，也会评估航空公司的运作历史、事故记录和运作管理水平。

美国航空（American Airlines）和　阿联酋航空（Emirates）在过去12个月曾发生事故和意外，因此进不了2016年的20大名单。

英国航空（British Airways）和达美航空（Delta Air Lines）在2015年曾发生过严重事故，不过在2016年就回到20大的名单。

AirlineRatings也表示，如果航空公司发生失事意外导致有乘客和（或者）机组人员死亡，将自动在未来十年的飞安评级中少获一颗星。

网站所调查的425家航空公司中，有148家在安全评级上被评为七颗星，不过将近50家只被评为三颗或以下。

网站也列出2016年十大最安全廉价航空，这些航空公司都通过国际航协安全审计超过1000项的审计项目。

此外，有十家航空公司仅被评一星，这些航空公司全部来自印度尼西亚、尼泊尔、阿富汗和苏里南。

最新全球20大最安全航空排名（排名以英文字母次序排列）：

新西兰航空（Air New Zealand）、阿拉斯加航空（Alaska Airlines）、全日空（All Nippon Airways）、英国航空（British Airways）、国泰航空（Cathay Pacific Airways）、达美航空（Delta Air Lines）、阿提哈德航空（Etihad Airways）、长荣航空（EVA Air,　）、芬兰航空（Finnair）、夏威夷航空（Hawaiian Airlines）、日本航空（Japan Airlines）、皇家荷兰航空（KLM）、汉莎航空（Lufthansa）、北欧航空（Scandinavian Airline System）、新加坡航空（Singapore Airlines）、瑞士航空（Swiss, United Airlines）、联合航空（United Airlines）、维珍大西洋航空（Virgin Atlantic）和维珍澳洲航空（　Virgin Australia）。

最新全球10大最安全廉价航空（排名以英文字母次序排列）：

爱尔兰航空（Aer Lingus）、弗莱比航空（Flybe）、香港快运（HK Express）、JetBlue （捷蓝航空）、捷星澳洲（Jetstar Australia）、捷星亚洲（Jetstar Asia）、Thomas Cook （托马斯库克航空）、维珍美国航空（Virgin America）、伏林航空（Vueling）和西捷航空（Westjet）。

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World's safest airlines for 2017


AirlineRatings Editors

05 Jan 2017

Airlineratings.com names its best of the best.　

Qantas 787 Dreamliner. Credit Boeing

Air New Zealand Boeing 777-300ER. Credit Vortex

All Nippon Airways Boeing 787. Credit Sydney Airport

EVA Air Boeing 777-300ER. Credit Boeing

Singapore Airlines A350. Credit Airbus

Lufthansa A350. Credit Airbus

Delta Air Lines A330. Credit Airbus

Etihad Airways A380. Credit Airbus

Virgin Australia Boeing 777-300ER. Credit Vortex

AirlineRatings.com, the world’s only safety and product rating website, which was launched in June 2013, has announced its top twenty safest airlines and top ten safest low-cost airlines for 2017 from the 425 it monitors.
　
Top of the list for the fourth year is Australia’s　Qantas, which has a fatality free record in the jet era – an extraordinary record. Making up the remainder of the top twenty in alphabetical order are:　Air New Zealand,　Alaska Airlines,　All Nippon Airways,　British Airways,　Cathay Pacific Airways, 　Delta Air Lines,　Etihad Airways,　EVA Air,　Finnair,　Hawaiian Airlines,　Japan Airlines,　KLM,　Lufthansa,　Scandinavian Airline System,　Singapore Airlines,　Swiss,　United Airlines,　Virgin Atlantic　and　Virgin Australia.　

Read: Social media fuels fear of flying　

In making its selections AirlineRatings.com takes into account numerous factors that include; audits from aviation’s governing bodies and lead associations; government audits; airline’s crash and serious incident record; profitability and fleet age.

AirlineRating.com’s editorial team, one of the world’s most awarded and experienced, also examined each airline’s fleet history and its track record of initiating new safety technology to arrive at its top 20 safest airlines.

The AirlineRatings.com top twenty have always been at the forefront of safety innovation and launching of new aircraft and these airlines have become a byword for excellence.　

AirlineRatings.com editors also identified their top ten safest low-cost airlines.
　
These are in alphabetical order: 　Aer Lingus,　Flybe,　HK Express,　Jetblue,　Jetstar Australia,　Jetstar Asia,　Thomas Cook,　Virgin America,　Vueling　and　Westjet.

Unlike a number of low-cost carriers, these airlines have all passed the stringent International Air Transport Association Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) which has over 1000 audit items and have excellent safety records.

Suggested read:　How we work out each airline's safety rating　
　
Of the 425 airlines surveyed, 148 have the top seven-star safety ranking but almost 50 have just three stars or less. There are 14 airlines with only one star and these airlines are from Afghanistan, Indonesia, Nepal and Surinam.
　
In selecting Qantas as the world’s safest airline for the fourth year running AirlineRatings.com editors noted that over its 96-year history the world’s oldest continuously operating airline has amassed an amazing record of firsts in operations and safety and is now accepted by the British Advertising Standards Association as the industry’s most experienced carrier.
　
The Australian airline has been a leader in; the development of the Future Air Navigation System; the Flight Data Recorder to monitor plane and later crew performance; automatic landings using Global Navigation Satellite System as well as precision approaches around mountains in cloud using RNP. Qantas was the lead airline with real-time monitoring of its engines across its fleet using satellite communications, which has enabled the airline to detect problems before they become a major safety issue.
　
Despite some high-profile accidents in 2016, the number of crashes has shown a steady and persistent decline over the past two decades.

Air crashes are big news but statistics from the Aviation Safety Network show that 2016 was the second safest year on record to take a flight.

The Netherlands-based ASN, which compiles a global accident database, looked at crashes worldwide of civil aircraft carrying at least 14 passengers and found there were 19 fatal airliner accidents involving 325 deaths. The network’s statistics include acts such as suicide, sabotage and hijackings that can be excluded from some analyses.

Although this was up from 16 accidents in 2015, it still made 2016 the second safest year ever by number of fatal accidents as well as in terms of fatalities. 　

By comparison, 560 people died in 2015, while the year of the lowest number of fatalities, 2013, recorded 29 accidents.

Eleven of the accidents and 288 deaths involved passenger flights but the ASN noted this translated to one fatal passenger flight per 3.2 million flights.

This means aviation is still by far the safest way to travel and provides a context for the widespread media coverage of high-profile crashes such as the LaMia tragedy in Colombia involving a Brazillian football team.

The ASN’s analysis also found the five-year average trend showed accidents occurring during approach and landing fell to their lowest point in 45 years.

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