AIRLINES → RANK #33
TAP Air Portugal
STEADY
No fatal accident in nearly five decades of flying.
SOURCE: AVIATION SAFETY NETWORK (COMPILED)
Years without fatal accident
49 and counting
Safe flights in a row
1.9 million
Founded
1945
Fleet size
~100
Home country
Portugal
WHY THIS IS REASSURING
At this level of safety, the gap between major airlines is statistically negligible. Flying TAP Air Portugal — or any major scheduled carrier — you would need to fly every day for over 25,000 years to statistically expect a fatal accident.
SOURCE: MIT / ARNOLD BARNETT · METHODOLOGY →