EVA ranked high for safety
Taiwanese carrier EVA Air has once again ranked among Aero International's "Best of Best" for safety.
Aero International, a monthly aviation-industry magazine published in Germany, has again recognised EVA Air among the world's best airlines for no deaths or aircraft losses in its 16 years of service.Worldwide, four airlines have met this high safety standard for 34 years, while eight, including EVA, follow in descending order, based on the number of years that they have been flying. The report describes EVA as "flying accident-free since its start of operations", ranking it statistically as one of the "safest airlines in the world" in 9th place among the 50 largest carriers. Aero International also cited EVA among the top-10 safest carriers last year. Emphasising the culture of safety, the magazine ranks airlines using data provided by the Hamburg-based Jet Airliner Crashes Evaluation Centre, an organisation that has tracked airline accidents since 1973. Carriers with top-rated safety records for the full tracking period are Qantas, Finnair, Cathay Pacific and All Nippon Airways. Younger airlines in ranking order with the years they began flying are Air Berlin (1979), Virgin Atlantic (1984), Emirates (1985), Ryanair (1985), EVA (1991), Qatar Airways (1994), Easyjet (1995) and Jet Blue (2000). the nation
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