Top 20 Safest Low-Cost Airlines For 2024

Geoffrey Thomas

By Geoffrey Thomas Wed Jan 3, 2024

AirlineRatings.com the world's only safety, and product rating agency has announced its top 20 safest low-cost airlines for 2024 from the 385 airlines it monitors.

The AirlineRatings top 20 safest low-cost airlines for 2024 in order are:

Jetstar, easyJet, Ryanair, Wizz Air, Norwegian, Frontier, Vueling, Vietjet, Southwest, Volaris, flydubai, AirAsia Group **, Cebu Pacific, Sun Country, Spirit, Westjet, JetBlue, Air Arabia, Indigo and Eurowings.

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Photo: easyJet
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Factors used to decide the top 20 safest low-cost airlines include; incident records over the past two years, crash records over the past five years, results of audits conducted by the governing body of aviation, The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), EU banned lists and fleet age.

AirlineRatings offers a unique safety tool that allows passengers to compare the safety ratings of more than 385 airlines.

See the safety tool.

AirlineRatings was launched in June 2013 and rates the safety, in-flight product, and COVID-19 compliance of 385 airlines using its unique seven-star rating system. It has been used by millions of passengers from 195 countries and has become the industry standard for safety and product rating.

Airlineratings.com was developed to provide everyone with a one-stop shop for everything related to airlines, formed by a team of aviation editors, who have forensically researched nearly every airline in the world.

**AirAsia, AirAsia X, AirAsia Thailand, AirAsia Philippines and AirAisa Ind

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