The 25 safest airlines in the world for 2025 are, in order: Air New Zealand; Qantas; Cathay Pacific, Qatar Airways and Emirate; Virgin Australia; Etihad Airways; DWARF; EVA Air; Korean Air; Alaska Airlines; Turkish Airlines, TAP Air Portugal; Hawaiian Airlines; American Airlines; SAS; British Airways; Iberia; Finnair; Lufthansa/Swiss; JAL; Canada; Delta Airlines; Vietnam Airlines; and United Airlines.
AirlineRatings.com ranks the 25 safest airlines in the world based on record of serious incidents in the last two years, age and size of fleet, incident rate, fatalities, profitability, IOSA certification, ICAO audit by country or qualification and training of pilots, complementing this data with consultation of aviation specialist instruction pilots.