While commercial flights have been the safest mode of travel for decades, several high profile crashes over the past 12 months have understandably made flyers – both frequent and nervous – anxious about taking to the skies.
By looking at incident rates across 320 carriers, and adjusting for factors such as the total number of flights taken and the age of the fleet, website AirlineRatings has now ranked the top 25 safest airlines around the globe for 2026.
