Air Travel Fatality Rates Hits An All Time Low

According to Ascend, a London-based aviation consulting company flying is safer than ever so if you are concerned about the hazards of travel – lost luggage and missed connections then you can rest easy. “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 larger national carriers that are the ones developing quickest, whereas smaller airlines such as Kyrgyzstan Airways or Stan Airways are the ones people need to be a little more wary about flying with. 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 is to bring down the fatalities even more, but 2011 has certainly been an extremely successful year for the aviation industry.