Published on : Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Since its first flight in July 1985, no one has died in an accident involving the Irish airline.
Last year, Ryanair carried its one billionth passenger, the first European airline to reach that number. The total is rising rapidly to 1.1 billion at a rate of 356,000 per day.
easyJet has flown an estimated 820 million passengers safely since its maiden flight in November 1995. It made easyJet named in the second place.
Flybe, Jet2, Thomas Cook Airlines and Virgin Atlantic also have fatality-free records, but have flown far fewer passengers than easyJet or Ryanair. Monarch Airlines has collapsed in October 2017, had no fatal accidents in a history of almost half a century.
British Airways has not had a fatal accident since 1985, when fire engulfed a charter flight operated by its subsidiary, British Airtours, at Manchester airport; 55 people died.
Qantas Airlines is often said never to have crashed, with the claim included in the 1988 film, Rain Man. In its early days, the Australian airline suffered a number of fatal accidents, but has had none since a string of three crashes in New Guinea in 1951.
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