Airline safety records, airline by airline
Flying with any airline here is one of the safest ways to travel ever invented. For each: whether it has ever had a fatal accident, what happened if it has, and what changed after — every fact sourced.
Never had a fatal accident — then the longest records
Airlines where no one on board has ever died in an accident on their own flights come first, then the rest in order of how long it has been since their last. Tap an airline for its full record.
For 28 of the 29 airlines on this page — those based in the two safest groups of countries — per flight, 2018–2022 (MIT study).
Put another way: if you took a flight every single day, you would, on average, fly for about 219,000 years before a fatal accident happened to you.
Why we don't give airlines a score
A single safety score has to weigh a 1977 accident against a 2024 one, a hijacking against a mechanical failure, a regional partner's crash against the airline's own — and every scoring site weighs them differently, usually without telling you how. So FlyBud shows the facts instead: the date, the flight, what happened and what the official investigation found.
Two things matter more than any score. Every airline here flies under a national regulator that audits it, and most are members of IATA, which requires its members to pass its operational safety audit. And the rate of fatal accidents across commercial aviation has fallen for decades, because every accident is investigated in public and the fixes become rules for everyone.
Why flying keeps getting safer The safety record of every common airliner
Whatever you're flying, see the bumps on your route
Enter where you're flying from and to. The forecast shows where the bumpy stretches are, how strong they'll be and when in the flight they come, from global weather forecasts and live pilot reports.
The day you fly, in the departure airport's own calendar.
Airline safety questions
Which airlines have never had a fatal accident?
Of the airlines on this page, eight have never had anyone on board die in an accident on their own flights: Allegiant, easyJet, Emirates, Etihad, Qatar Airways, Ryanair, Vueling and Wizz Air. Each page shows what that rests on and when it was last checked.
What is the safest airline?
There isn't an honest single answer: many major airlines have had no fatal accident on their own flights for decades, and the differences between them are far smaller than the difference between flying and almost any other way to travel. This page lists the facts so you can compare them yourself.
How are airline safety ratings calculated?
Every rating site uses its own formula, and few publish it. FlyBud doesn't rate airlines; it lists each airline's accident record from official reports, and whether it belongs to IATA, whose members must pass its operational safety audit.
Know your flight before you board.
FlyBud shows your exact aircraft, the turbulence forecast for your route and every delay and gate change as it happens.