AirlineRatings.com Top 25 Airlines For 2024

Geoffrey Thomas

By Geoffrey Thomas Tue May 28, 2024

AirlineRatings.com has named its top 25 airlines for 2024 based on 12 criteria.

The judging panel considers a range of criteria that include safety and product rating, fleet age, profitability, serious incidents, passenger reviews from several sources, innovation and forward fleet orders.

The Top 25 premium airlines are:

Qatar Airways

Business meetings utilising the Quad Qsuite

Korean Air

Korean Air

Korean Air 777-300ER

Cathay Pacific Airways

Cathay Pacific
Cathay Pacific A350

Air New Zealand

Air New Zealand Premium Economy cabin
Air New Zealand Premium Economy cabin. Image: TravelDealz

Emirates

Emirates A380
Emirates Premium Economy

Air France/ KLM

best lomg haul airlines

Air France A350

All Nippon Airways

All Nippon
A Boeing 787-8. Photo: Toshi Aoki-JPspotters, Wkimedia Commons.

Etihad Airways

Boeing

Etihad Airways Boeing 787-10

Qantas

Qantas
Qantas A350 Image: Qantas

Virgin Australia/Atlantic

Virgin Australia
Virgin Australia 737 Image: Virgin

Vietnam Airlines

Vietnam Airlines Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner

Making up the Top 25 are:

  • Singapore Airlines
  • EVA Air
  • TAP Portugal
  • JAL
  • Finnair
  • Hawaiian
  • Alaska Airlines
  • Lufthansa/Swiss
  • Turkish Airlines
  • IGA Group (British Airways & Iberia)
  • Air Canada
  • Delta Air Lines
  • United Airlines
  • American Airlines

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Airlineratings.com is packed with information about air travel and answers questions that many of us may have thought of, but didn’t know who to ask. Well, now you do!

Airlineratings.com was developed to provide everyone in the world with a one-stop shop for everything related to airlines, formed by a team of aviation editors, who have forensically researched nearly every airline in the world.

Our rating system is rated from one to seven stars on safety – with seven being the highest ranking. Within each airline, you will find the country of origin, airline code, booking URL and seat map information.

The rating system takes into account a number of different factors related to audits from aviation’s governing bodies, lead associations as well as the airline’s own safety data. Every airline has a safety rating breakdown so you can see exactly how they rate.

Over 230 of the airlines on the site that carry 99 per cent of the world’s passengers have a product rating.

Given that low-cost, regional and full-service carriers are so different we have constructed a different rating system for each which can be found within each airline.

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