The Qantas Group has dominated AirlineRatings.com's annual World's Safest Airlines for 2024 being ranked 1st for Low-Cost Airlines (Jetstar) and 2nd (Qantas) in the full-service airline category.

In making its evaluation, AirlineRatings.com takes into account a comprehensive range of factors that include serious incidents, recent fatal accidents, audits from aviation’s governing and industry bodies, profitability, industry-leading safety initiatives, expert pilot training assessment and fleet age.

AirlineRatings.com Editor-in-Chief Geoffrey Thomas acknowledged that the Qantas Group had come in for considerable bad press in Australia over flight cancellations and disruptions but said that "the issues that impacted the airline group and its competitors were global and not confined to Australia."

"The global airline industry was battered during COVID and it is taking several years to recover with staff shortages, COVID illness and spare parts shortages playing havoc with airlines," Mr Thomas said.

"Over 46 million airline and tourism staff lost their jobs during COVID and the airline industry lost $300 billion. For some reason, some elements in the lay media have chosen to ignore the global issues impacting airlines and relentlessly attack Qantas and Jetstar."

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Mr Thomas said, "What is not appreciated is that Qantas is the world's most experienced airline with an extraordinary record of firsts in the operational and safety area.

This was proven to the British Advertising Standards Association (ASA) in 2008, based on a report authored by Mr Thomas which listed 25 industry firsts or seconds that Qantas could claim.

The Qantas Group has an unprecedented number of aircraft on order or covered by purchase rights as under:

290 Airbus A320s, Airbus A321XLRs and A220s.

24 Airbus A350-1000s plus unspecified purchase rights.

4 Boeing 787-9s

8 Boeing 787-10s plus unspecified purchase rights.

These aircraft are being delivered at the rate of one every three weeks.

These aircraft will replace the Boeing 737s, 717s and Airbus A330s as well as earlier models of the A320.

The Top Twenty Safest Airlines in ranking are Air New Zealand, Qantas, Virgin Australia, Etihad Airways, Qatar Airways, Emirates, All Nippon Airways, Finnair, Cathay Pacific Airways, Alaska Airlines, SAS, Korean Air, Singapore Airlines, EVA Air, British Airways, Turkish Airlines, TAP Air Portugal, Lufthansa/Swiss Group, KLM, Japan Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, American Airlines, Air France, Air Canada Group and United Airlines.

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