LCC's better safety record!?

Canus Chinookus · Post by **Canus Chinookus** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 3:54 pm

http://www.flightglobal.com/Articles/20 ... +list.html
Low-cost carriers top US safety list

Study highlights superior strategy and organisation

US low-cost carriers (LCC) demonstrate better safety performance than their mainline or regional airline counterparts, says a study by San Jose State University, California. The results are not an aberration, the study notes, but a result of superior “strategic choices and organisational cultures”.

Safety comparison US carriers by categories W445
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US LCCs score better than either of the other carrier categories in four measurable performance areas, according to San Jose’s director of aviation Prof Triant Flores and his co-author Felipe Reyes, manager technical audits at Air Canada Technical Services. The four areas are accident rates, incident rates, on-time performance and schedule compliance.

The period under study is 1 January 2000-31 December 2004, but it excludes the 9/11 events, Flores told last week’s Flight Safety Foundation/European Regions Airline Association European Aviation Safety Seminar in Athens, Greece.

Airlines studied were the top five US mainline scheduled carriers by number of departures, the top four LCCs and the top four regionals.

The mainline carriers have an accident rate (as defined by the US Federal Aviation Administration) of 4.98 per million departures, the LCCs 2.38 and the regionals 3.91 (see chart). Because one of the LCCs has had no accidents, the study includes incident rates and these, respectively, are 31.29, 13.91 and 22.88 per million departures.

Only the top two LCCs designated as such by the FAA are considered by Flores to comply with what is now accepted as the classic no-frills LCC model, but if those alone were compared, the performance disparity in their favour would have been even more dramatic, Flores says.

He concludes that strategic choices and organisational cultures were key to performance, citing the LCCs’ choice of single-type fleets of third-generation jets, and “simpler organisational structures”.

DAVID LEARMOUNT / ATHENS

Blastor · Post by **Blastor** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 1:51 am

Ryanair offers cheap tickets on heels of safety allegations

Budget airline Ryanair Holdings PLC offered millions of cheap tickets yesterday as it went on the attack against allegations in a television program that it has been lax in respecting air safety and security rules.

The British Transport Office said it will follow up the security allegations with the airline.

The Channel Four documentary used two undercover reporters working as flight attendants to garner information that it claimed revealed lapses in standards, including passport checks, and overworked and undertrained staff.

Ryanair splashed out on advertisements in several British newspapers yesterday with the heading "An Apology" following the screening of the documentary Monday.

But the "apology" was to rival airlines easyJet PLC, British Airways PLC and Aer Lingus as Ryanair released three million "zero fare" tickets for travel before the end of May. Passengers pay only airport taxes and charges.

Ryanair chief executive officer Michael O'Leary said the allegations are without foundation. RYA (Dublin) rose 7 euro cents (9.6 cents) to €7.77. AP

WJflyer · Post by **WJflyer** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:07 am

Ryanair has always been cheap on everything, so their safety can be of suspect at times.

And quit posting news that is more than a month old Blastor.

Rebel · Post by **Rebel** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 5:06 pm

WJflyer

The last I heard Canada was still a free country. I may not agree with everything Blaster posts but I’ll be dammed if I’ll stand by and listen to you trying to suppress his freedom to post what he likes..

forbes · Post by **forbes** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 5:52 pm

I DAMN U REBEL

Rebel · Post by **Rebel** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 6:41 pm

forbes

Stop being an idiot we have folks dying in far away lands protecting your freedoms. No doubt you’re one of those pacifist types hiding in your folk’s root cellar when the going gets tough.

forbes · Post by **forbes** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 7:35 pm

Rebel, what in &*^% name does this have to do with LCC's good safety record ( u are a very strange little man Rebel )

jjj · Post by **jjj** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 1:51 pm

Rebel,

the people out East that are doin' the dying have nothing to do with feedom. It has to do with oil.

There are atrocities on the planet that make cthe onflict in the middle east look like a bar fight. However, they go unnoticed because there aren't any natural resources to divy up at the end of the day.

jjj

RVSM · Post by **RVSM** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 3:51 pm

Rebel wrote:WJflyer

The last I heard Canada was still a free country. I may not agree with everything Blaster posts but I’ll be dammed if I’ll stand by and listen to you trying to suppress his freedom to post what he likes..

Hey, aren't you the clown that claimed to have E-mailed WS because you didn't like what I had to say? That was to protect my freedom of speech, right? LOL

Speaking of e-mails, did Ralph ever get back to you with proof that the Aberta Heritage Fund paid for the YYC hanger? Goof.