Turkish Airlines is now rated as a seven-star airline for safety by the global rating agency AirlineRatings.com.
Turkish Airlines’ incident record over the past five years has been outstanding and has resulted in the airline’s safety rating being lifted from five-star to the highest seven-star.
In an industry first, AirlineRatings.com examines serious incident reports over the prior five years to arrive at an incident rating for airlines. Incidents and crashes now account for five of the seven-star ratings.
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AirlineRatings.com Editor-in-Chief Geoffrey Thomas said; “Turkish Airlines’ safety record is superb and at every touchpoint passenger safety is paramount.”
“Our refined safety rating system recognizes the achievements of airlines such as Turkish that have excellent records,” said Mr Thomas.
“There is growing concern industry-wide at some pilot performance issues and we have evolved our rating system to put greater focus on outcomes.
“With Turkish Airlines, we found an extremely low incident rate and virtually none attributable to pilots.
“That performance and its COVID-19 compliance for passengers gain Turkish Airlines the top safety rating of seven stars,” said Mr Thomas.
The airline also has a seven-star rating for its onboard products making it a seven-star rated airline for safety, product and COVID compliance.
Prior to COVID Turkish Airlines operated 374 aircraft to 331 destinations in 127 countries, including 52 domestic, and 13 in the United States and 11 in Germany.
About Airlineratings.com
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 airlines, 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.
