Hungarian low-cost Wizz Air among the world’s Top10 safest airlines

Wizz Air, one of Europe’s fastest growing airlines and the leading low cost carrier in Central and Eastern Europe was named top ten safest low cost carriers of 2019 in the world by the world’s only one-stop airline safety and product rating agency AirlineRatings.com.

In making its evaluation,  AirlineRatings.com takes into account a comprehensive range of factors that include: audits from aviation’s governing and industry bodies; government audits; airline’s crash and serious incident record; profitability, industry-leading safety initiatives, and fleet age. Being among the world’s top ten safest low cost airlines is a great accomplishment which underpins Wizz Air’s stringent strategy which considers safety as its top priority.

Wizz Air operates one of the world’s youngest fleets – currently consisting of 115 Airbus A320, A321ceo and Airbus A321neo aircraft with an average age of 4.7 years.

The airline has further 274 of the world’s most effective single-aisle aircraft, the Airbus A321neo on order. Wizz Air works with Europe’s leading maintenance partners to keep its young and modern fleet in an impeccable state Since it started flying in 2004, Wizz Air has devoted significant time and resources to ensure that its safety culture, safety procedures as well as training and development of its staff are world-class.