For those planning trips this year and are worried about travel safety, you're in luck — though the planet isn't.
AirlineRatings.com, an airline safety and product review website that monitors the activity of 405 airlines, has submitted its annual list of safest carriers around the world.
According to the website, the list is compiled after factors such as "audits from aviation's governing and industry bodies, government audits, airline's crash and serious incident record, profitability, industry-leading safety initiatives, and fleet age" are studied.
Leading the top 20 list is Australia's Qantas, which has been dominating this category since 2014.
The remaining airlines and in numerical order are: Air New Zealand, EVA Air, Etihad, Qatar Airways, Singapore Airlines, Emirates, Alaska Airlines, Cathay Pacific Airways, Virgin Australia, Hawaiian Airlines, Virgin Atlantic Airlines, TAP Portugal, SAS, Royal Jordanian, Swiss, Finnair, Lufthansa, Aer Lingus, and KLM.
Four Arab airlines have taken spots on the list
Two Emirati carriers made it to the Top 20 Safest Airlines for 2020 list along with two other regional airlines.
Abu Dhabi's Etihad Airways (4th) and Dubai's Emirates (7th) had no problem showing constant effort and work ethics throughout the past years. Emirates in particular is known for its elegant treatment of passengers and for being almost always on time — a title even better snatched by Qatar Airways. The latter ranked 5th on the list.
Royal Jordanian nestled in the 15th spot of the elite list of "standout" airlines, as AirlineRatings.com Editor-in-Chief Geoffrey Thomas put it.
And a fifth won the first place on the "Top 10 Safest Low Cost Airlines for 2020" list
Sharjah-based Air Arabia took the first spot on the Top 10 Safest Low Cost Airlines for 2020.
"Unlike a number of low-cost carriers, these airlines have all passed the stringent International Air Transport Association Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) and have excellent safety records," the website wrote of the Top 10 list.
The website's Editor-in-Chief emphasized on the fact that they didn't take into consideration minor incidents while preparing the list.
"All airlines have incidents every day and many are aircraft manufacture issues, not airline operational problems," he said. "It is the way the flight crew handles incidents that determines a good airline from an unsafe one. So just lumping all incidents together is very misleading."
