Wizz Air has been ranked in the top five in Airlineratings.com World's Safest Low-Cost Airlines for 2024 announced today.

Wizz Air, established just over 20 years ago, was ranked fourth with Jetstar, easyJet, and Ryanair with Norwegian in fifth place.

Airlineratings.com Editor-in-Chief Geoffrey Thomas said, "The scoring was tight with very little between the top five."

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.

However, the evaluation leaves out such things as bird strikes, turbulence injuries, weather diversions and lightning strikes as the airline has no control over such events.

"Wizz Air has developed into an outstanding airline group with subsidiaries in Abu Dhabi (below), Malta and the UK."

"The airline group has a modern fleet of 195 Airbus aircraft consisting of 45 A320's and 150 A321's. In addition to this it has huge expansion plans with another 352 A320 family aircraft on order," Mr Thomas said.

The full low-cost airline safety rankings for 2024 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.

**AirAsia, AirAsia X, AirAsia Thailand, AirAsia Philippines and AirAsia India.

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