Emirates
Operates the world’s largest A380 and 777 fleets with no passenger fatalities.
Two events made headlines without changing this: EK521 (2016) — all 300 aboard evacuated, one firefighter died on the ground; and a 2025 SkyCargo freighter crash in Hong Kong, a cargo flight operated by a leased crew from another carrier.
READ THE RECORD → (opens in a new window)At this level of safety, the gap between major airlines is statistically negligible. Flying Emirates — or any major scheduled carrier — you would need to fly every day for over 25,000 years to statistically expect a fatal accident.
This figure counts years since a fatal accident, not flights — Emirates has no sourced per-airline flight total, so it can't say how many trips sit behind the record. One airline's own history, however long or short, is a far smaller sample than the worldwide figure this site already publishes: 99.999993% of boardings end safely — 1 death per 13,700,000 boardings, worldwide, 2018–2022 (MIT / ARNOLD BARNETT, 2024).
That's the whole record, checked 2026-07-09. Reading it again tonight won't change what's in it.