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Originally Posted by Anthony R Haynes
Why would you even think of saying that Adam. Qantas and all other Australian airlines are right up there for safety.
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Actually it was quite a legitimate question - I'm not denying Australian airlines are very safe but are any of them the safest?
Australian airlines by world standards have relatively small fleet sizes and internationally at least fly relatively long sectors (especially QF throughout their history) which decreases the risk.
Take an airline like Southwest for example - a fleet size of 540ish, a lot of very short sectors and in almost 40 years of operation still hasn't had a fatal event occur.
If you're measuring by no fatal accidents (which is a whole lot more accurate then day to day maintenance issues) there is quite a comprehensive list here:
http://www.airsafe.com/events/nofatals.htm#uscan