Fatality Rate On Airline Travel At An All Time Low
Flying is the safest form of travel according to Ascend, a London-based aviation consulting company, so if you are still nervous of the prospect of travelling on a plane you shouldn’t be. “We still have a few days left but, provisionally speaking, 2011 is going to be the best year ever for safety,” said Paul Hayes, the company’s director of safety. On a global scale there have been 401 fatalities down from 726 in 2010 on commercial and private aircraft so far this year. In 2011 the world’s airlines combined carried a total of 2.9 billion passengers which works out at 1 fatality per every 7.1 million passengers, the lowest figure since Ascend began keeping records.
Thinking of travelling to Africa on a Botswana safari in 2012, then you couldn’t be in safer hands. Aircrafts are much safer now than they ever have been, due to the fact the training of staff has significantly improved, the aircraft are top of the range and pilots are able to inform the industry about any unforeseen problems with the aircrafts. Unsurprisingly it’s the large national carriers that are the ones making the advancements, and there are still plenty of airlines you may want to avoid including Kyrgyzstan Airways or Stan Airways. Africa has a significantly improved safety record from a few years back making your trip on an African safari the safest it’s ever been.
With the release of the new Boeing Dreamliner sparked a revolution of new, more advanced aircraft. The future for air travel can only get brighter so people should not only be extremely happy with the current improvements but they should embrace the continued improvement with a whole new fleet of aircraft.
Travelling on a Tanzania safari could never be safer as gone are the days when African airlines would simply have a fleet of ‘pass me downs’ from Russia, but they have invested money in new, state of the art aircraft to take them into the future and to help improve the global safety record.
Although there is still 2 days left in 2011, it’s on course for being the best year on record for safety providing there isn’t a catastrophe before January 1st. The target of course for 2012 will be to bring down the fatalities even more, but there’s no forgetting that 2011 has been an extremely successful year.
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