Singapore Airlines
Consistently rated among the best-run carriers in the world. In 2024, one passenger — a 73-year-old with a heart condition — died when SQ321 hit severe turbulence; it was the airline’s first fatality since 2000.
SQ321 is also the clearest seatbelt lesson in modern aviation: the aircraft dropped 178 feet, and the people hurt were the people not belted in. The aircraft landed safely.
READ THE RECORD → (opens in a new window)At this level of safety, the gap between major airlines is statistically negligible. Flying Singapore Airlines — 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 — Singapore Airlines 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.