Does anyone know a website where you can look up safety records of foreign airlines? I'm looking for LAN and Copa right now since they have cheaper flights to Ecuador (my next trip) from the U.S. However, this has come up before and I would love to know about any general airline safety sites.

Thanks in advance.

Wikipedia will generally list incidents involving the airlines on the respective page. As for LAN and Copa, they are both very reputable, and I would not hesitate to fly either of them.

Wikpedia is the best place to check LAN has a long list.

Generally www.copaair.com has a better safety record than LAN

which actually has reported being chased

having to divert for a UFO

between SA ano Oz pretty funny

Their newer planes are good their Ecuador flights are good

better than TAME which has flown into a mountain near Tulcan

and AeroGal lots of maintainence issues and delays.

In Peru they rip non-Peruano tourists off with a $178.50

"non-resident" surcharge per flight I will not fly them

if there is another alternative in Peru due to this

but they are pretty safe.

Have fun,

www.taca.com is nice better record

good web promos sometimes

if going your way...

www.airlinequality.com/Forum/tame.htm

another good site TAME does have new A320s

that is good a few maitainence issues turnbacks

nothing major lately I know of.

American strangely my least favorite older fleet

unfriendly pilots/staff many delays for me.

Pretty safe though usually...

For your amusement.

Never did find anywhere online that listed general safety records for international airlines. Closest thing I found was a listing of really awful airlines banned from landing in the EU. http://ec.europa.eu/transport/air-ban/list_en.htm Fortunately, LAN was not on it.

I decided to go with the flights that included AA & LAN - cheaper and good times. Then, a week after I made the reservations, I got a call from AA that the LAN flight times had changed so I was being re-booked. The new flights were all on AA. So much for advance research.

The EU bans are primarily bans against entire countries, rather than bans due to specific problems with any individual airline. Basically, the EU requires that the certifying authority for an airline has some minimum standards for that certification. The US has similar bans.