Ryanair and easyJet in top 5 of prestigious world’s best budget airline awards

THE world's safest airlines for 2025 person been named - with British Airways, Ryanair, easyJet and Jet2 among the frontrunners.

Aviation website AirlineRatings analyses a scope of factors to find which full-service airline comes retired connected apical retired of the 385 carriers it monitors.

Factors see crashes implicit the past 5 years arsenic good arsenic immoderate superior incidents wrong the past 2 years.

Other criteria are besides considered, including authorities audits, the property of aircraft, the size of an airline's fleet and unit training.

AirlineRatings.com, which has been conducting its World's Safest Airline rankings since 2012, crowned Air New Zealand the victor for the 2nd twelvemonth successful a row.

Air New Zealand was followed by Qantas.

Cathay Pacific, Qatar Airways and Emirates each tied for 3rd place, with Virgin Australia taking fourth.

Turkish Airlines (THY) was the archetypal European bearer to marque the database coming successful tenth place, followed by TAP Portugal successful 11th.

Meanwhile, British Airways took 15th place.

Not lone was it the lone UK hose to marque the list, it besides held onto the aforesaid presumption arsenic past year.

European airlines Finnair and Lufthansa/Swiss besides made the apical 25.

The safest fund airlines were besides revealed - with Ryanair and easyJet coming successful 3rd and 4th place, respectively.

The Brit-favourite fund airlines were beaten by Hong Kong Express and Jetstar Group.

Wizz Air took seventh place, portion Jet2 was named 14th successful the rankings and Eurowings came successful astatine 20th.

AirlineRatings.com CEO Sharon Petersen, said: "It was highly adjacent again betwixt Air New Zealand and Qantas for archetypal spot with lone 1.50 points separating the 2 airlines.

"Whilst some airlines uphold the highest information standards and aviator training, Air New Zealand proceed to person a younger fleet than Qantas which separates the two.

"The three-way necktie for 3rd spot was due to the fact that we simply could not abstracted these airlines. From fleet property to aviator skill, information practices, fleet size, and fig of incidents, their scores were identical."

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