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Eurowings safety record

Eurowings has never had a fatal accident on its flights — not once in more than thirty years of flying. On airlines like Eurowings, the chance of being in a fatal accident is about 1 in 80 million per flight.

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No fatal accident for anyone on board, ever in 33 years of flying

1 in 80 millionodds of a fatal accident, per flight
219,000 yearsof flying every day, on average, before a fatal accident
For airlines based in Germany and the other countries in the same safety group, 2018–2022 (MIT study).
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Not a single fatal accident on its flights

Eurowings was formed in 1993, when two regional airlines from Nuremberg and Dortmund merged, and it has never had a fatal accident on its flights. It began with turboprops, flying many of its routes for Lufthansa, which bought into it from 2001 and has owned it outright since 2011. From 2015 it became the Lufthansa Group's low-cost airline, and today it flies Airbus A320-family jets from Düsseldorf and other German airports, plus Boeing 737-800s flown for it by Smartwings. Its sister airline Eurowings Europe, licensed in Malta, flies under the same name and is included in this record.

Many people search for Eurowings because of Germanwings. Germanwings started inside Eurowings in the late 1990s, but from 2009 it was a separate Lufthansa airline, and in March 2015 Germanwings flight 9525 was flying under its own name when the French investigators (BEA) found its co-pilot deliberately locked the captain out of the cockpit and flew the A320 into the Alps; all 150 people on board lost their lives. Germanwings' routes moved to the Eurowings brand from October 2015, and the airline was folded into Eurowings in 2020. Flight 9525 is on Lufthansa's record, the parent at the time, not on the line below. After it, European rules required airlines to give pilots a psychological assessment before they start flying passengers, and access to a confidential support programme.

Before the 1993 merger, one of its two founding airlines, Nürnberger Flugdienst, lost a Metro turboprop near Essen in February 1988 after a lightning strike knocked out its electrics; all 21 on board lost their lives. Records of airlines merged into another are not counted on the line.

Eurowings flights have met turbulence: in September 2019 one passenger was seriously hurt and seven people slightly hurt as an A319 descended towards Berlin, and in May 2026 five passengers and one crew member were slightly hurt when an A320 from Rhodes flew through the wake of an Airbus A380 ahead of it. Eurowings is overseen by Germany's Federal Aviation Office (Eurowings Europe by Malta's) under European (EASA) rules, and it is a member of IATA, which requires its members to pass IATA's operational safety audit (IOSA).

since 1993

Nothing to put on the line

Each dot would be a fatal accident on a Eurowings flight. There are none. Airlines merged into Eurowings, and fatalities that investigators don't class as accidents, aren't shown.

200020102020
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Eurowings in numbers

Founded
1993
Country
Germany
Main hubs
Düsseldorf · Cologne/Bonn · Hamburg · Stuttgart
Passengers a year
23.7 M 2025
Fleet
98
IATA safety audit (IOSA)
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Eurowings safety questions

How safe is Eurowings?

Eurowings has never had a fatal accident on its flights — not once in more than thirty years of flying. On airlines like Eurowings, the chance of being in a fatal accident is about 1 in 80 million per flight. Every fact on this page is sourced — the list is at the bottom.

What is Eurowings' safety rating?

FlyBud doesn't invent a score. What matters is the record, which you can check: no Eurowings flight has had a fatal accident since the airline was formed in 1993. It is a member of IATA, the airlines' trade body, which requires its members to pass IATA's operational safety audit (IOSA), and it is overseen by Germany's Federal Aviation Office under European (EASA) rules.

Is Eurowings the same airline as Germanwings?

Not quite. Germanwings began inside Eurowings, but from 2009 it was a separate Lufthansa airline, and that is what it was in March 2015, when flight 9525 crashed in the French Alps under the Germanwings name; investigators found the co-pilot flew it into the mountains deliberately. Germanwings' routes moved to the Eurowings brand later in 2015, and the airline was folded into Eurowings in 2020.

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Where these facts come from

Every fact on this page comes from official accident reports, the airline group's own figures or the published accident record.

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