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Vietnam Airlines, Jetstar Pacific among world’s safest airlines

The national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines and the budget carrier Jetstar Pacific were awarded the highest seven-star safety ranking from the world’s safety and product rating agency AirlineRatings.com, Vietnam Airlines Corporation said on October 15.
Vietnam Airlines, Jetstar Pacific among world’s safest airlines ảnh 1The national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines was awarded the highest seven-star safety ranking  from AirlineRatings.com. (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – The national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines and thebudget carrier Jetstar Pacific were awarded the highest seven-star safetyranking from the world’s safety and product rating agency AirlineRatings.com,Vietnam Airlines Corporation said on October 15.

The safety rating for each airline is conducted based on standards recognisedby countries worldwide like safety management system with eight audit parametersof the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) and the certificationof the IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA), among others.

The two Vietnamese airlines, together with Singapore Airlines, British Airways,American Airlines and Emirates, also satisfied the  AirlineRatings’ criteria on fatality freerecord for the past ten years.

Congratulating Vietnam Airlines on this achievement, Geoffrey Thomas, Editor-in-chiefat the AirlineRatings, said “For a long time, Vietnam Airlines has been an importantpart of the economy of Vietnam. The airline has a very modern fleet of Airbusand Boeing aircraft and operationally is now up there with the very best”.

Last year, Vietnam Airlines transported nearly 22 million passengers on 140,000safe flights.

Regarding Jetstar Pacific, the carrier fulfilled 800 criteria to receive theIOSA certificate in September 2018. Currently, the airline is operating thesafety management system (SMS) meeting the standards of the ICAO and theInternational Air Transport Association (IATA).

On AirlineRatings’ evaluation on flight entertainment, meals and othercomforts, Vietnam Airlines also achieved high rating of 6.5 out of seven stars.Meanwhile, in low-cost carrier product rating, Jetstar Pacific was rated threeout of five stars, the same level as Jeju Air (the Republic of Korea), Air Asia(Indonesia) and Cebu Pacific (the Philippines).

Jetstar Pacific is the first low-cost carrier of Vietnam. Vietnam Airlines andQantas Airlines are its main shareholders.-VNA    
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