Airline Safety, Air Trivia
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Airline Safety, Air Trivia
For the person (Southwest Airlines post) who was asking about airline crash histories (and for any other trivia nerds out there), the data at AirSafe.com is as follows:
US carriers without a fatal incident since 1970 (Or whenever the carrier went into business):
America West
Southwest
Minor carriers/commuters without a fatal incident:
Hawaiian
Aloha
Sun Country
American Trans Air
Forbes Magazine rating of quality of US carriers top to bottom (Based on multiple criteria):
Delta
Southwest
Alaskan
USAirways (?!)
American
Continental
Northwest
United
TWA
America West
Top customer satisfaction rating (many times over):
Southwest
Busiest airports in the WORLD (total passengers):
Atlanta-Hartsfield
Chicago-O'Hare
LAX
London-Heathrow
Dallas
Frankfurt
Top destination for foreign travellers (total number of foreign visitors):
France
Spain (?!)
USA
Italy
China
UK
US carriers without a fatal incident since 1970 (Or whenever the carrier went into business):
America West
Southwest
Minor carriers/commuters without a fatal incident:
Hawaiian
Aloha
Sun Country
American Trans Air
Forbes Magazine rating of quality of US carriers top to bottom (Based on multiple criteria):
Delta
Southwest
Alaskan
USAirways (?!)
American
Continental
Northwest
United
TWA
America West
Top customer satisfaction rating (many times over):
Southwest
Busiest airports in the WORLD (total passengers):
Atlanta-Hartsfield
Chicago-O'Hare
LAX
London-Heathrow
Dallas
Frankfurt
Top destination for foreign travellers (total number of foreign visitors):
France
Spain (?!)
USA
Italy
China
UK
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Hate to differ with the experts, but Aloha Airlines had one of their planes turn into a convertible about 12 years ago. A flight attendant was sucked out of the plane and lost at sea. Although the pilots managed to land the topless plane (there was a tv movie made about it) I don't call that minor. It was the first instance where they recognized that the skin of old jets become unstable after too many pressurizations.
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Try www.airsaftyonline.com
A source of excellent information
A source of excellent information
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Maybe it's splitting hairs, but airline fatal incidents are characterized by airsafe.com as when there is a passenger fatality. In the Aloha Airlines case, the fatality was a crewmember, as is noted on the site. Not that it makes much difference to the crewmember or their family. And the accident did serve to focus attention on the number of re/de-pressurization cycles of an aircraft's skin over its useful life relative to failure.


