All airlines are not equally safe.

All airlines are not equally safe. uniform with the rarity of fatal accidents in mind, there are dramatic differences among carriers. The chart below present to views there is considerable room for improvement in order to achieve "one plain of safety," the goal frequently proclaimed by industry officials and management regulators.

The graphic secretes 19 U.S. carriers, including their regional affiliates (eg American Airlines [AMR] includes American Eagle). Fatal accident rates in ascending order are shown in the brow row, the number of fatal accidents are portrayed in the other row, and millions of flights are shown in the third broil The rates have been highlighted for American Airlines (053) and for Alaska Airlines [ALK] (74) as these sum of two units carriers have experienced the mostly recent fatal accidents in the US

A hardly any observations on the data:

* 37% of the airlines (7 of 19) have no fatal events

* An increase in the total number of flights wait ons to increase the number of fatal consequences but not linearly.

* Delta Air Lines/Delta Connection [DAL], with the highest number of flights (20 million), has two-thirds the number of fatal incidents as American or United (6 9 and 9 respectively).

* TWA/TWA Expres [TWA], with 40% of Delta's flights (81m) has the same number of fatal terminations (6).

* Southwest Airlines [LUV] with 50% more flights than Alaska (626m v 405m) has no fatal circumstances compared to Alaska's three.

* Among the carriers with more than ten million flights, Delta's record leads the pack.

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