Were it not for COVID-19, the latest stats on airline safety would have served as a boon to consumer confidence in the safety of air travel. | AFP
The latest report from the International Air Transport Association out of Montreal showed that airline safety, as measured by accident and fatality rates, improved in 2019 with an accident rate of 1.13, or one accident for every 884,000 flights.That’s down from 1.36 in 2018. It’s also significantly better than the five-year average between 2014 to 2018, which is 1.56.
“The release of the 2019 Safety Report is a reminder that even as aviation faces its deepest crisis, we are committed to making aviation even safer,” said Alexandre de Juniac, IATA’s director general and CEO in a statement. “Based on the 2019 fatality risk, on average, a passenger could take a flight every day for 535 years before experiencing an accident with one fatality on board.”
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