Allegiant is now rated as a Seven-Star airline for safety and COVID-19 protection by AirlineRatings.com After consultation with the industry, the world’s most respected airline rating agency has refined its safety rating criteria to move the focus from audits to real-world outcomes in pilot performance. In an industry first, AirlineRatings.com has examined over 11,000 serious incident reports since 2015 to arrive at an incident rating for airlines. Incidents and crashes now account for five of the seven-star ratings. SUBSCRIBE to The Back Story for the real story - weekly! Allegiant has had a fatality-free record since it was formed in 1997. AirlineRatings.com Editor-in-Chief Geoffrey Thomas said; “Allegiant's safety record is superb and at every touchpoint passenger safety is paramount.” “Our refined safety rating system recognizes the achievements of airlines such as Allegiant, that have perfect fatality free records,” said Mr. Thomas. “There is growing concern industry-wide at some pilot performance issues and we have evolved our rating system to put greater focus on outcomes.” “With Allegiant we found an extremely low incident rate and virtually none attributable to pilots.” READ: The rise and rise of Kam Air “That performance and its COVID-19 compliance for passengers gain Allegiant the top safety rating of seven-stars,” said Mr. Thomas. The COVID-19 compliance checks off; – COVID-19 website information and instructions – Social distancing on boarding – Flight attendant Personal Protection Equipment – Face masks compulsory – Meal service modified – Passenger Sanitizer Kit – Deep clean of aircraft The airline complies with all the above and details can be viewed on its website here. Its fleet is built around the best selling single-aisle airliner, the Airbus A320. “The A320 is an outstanding platform and the airline has 105 in service, said Mr. Thomas.