Garuda Business Class

[MEL_Traveller]

Actually this illustrates how easily it is to come up with different interpretations of statistics.

My conclusions from browsing the link you provided was that Garuda was in fact worse than all of the carriers you mention above (looking at the rate of fatal events per million flights).

Agreed.

I was looking at the FLE, and going a step further at looking at the FLE as percentage of total possible. (A 100% FLE freaks me more than anything.)

I see the rate of fatal events per million - which doesn't then look good for carriers such as SQ and CX (both around 1.5 events per million compared to GA at 2.5 per million)

 

[straitman]

I don't know but they are certainly on the banned list for the company I am employed by.

The company I work for has a sizable aviation division which actively audits all aviation operators who supply aviation services to them (annually) and/or anyone who tenders to do so. They scrutinise their own in house aviation operations to the same degree and expect and insist upon an extremely high degree of compliance. As such there are a lot of operators and airlines that do not qualify for the tick in the box and Garuda is one of them. At the same time there is also a long list of those who are acceptable.

Based upon this knowledge I am more than happy to match my personal travel plans with their recommendations and go along with their outcomes and recommendations.

 

[dajop]

I see the rate of fatal events per million - which doesn't then look good for carriers such as SQ and CX (both around 1.5 events per million compared to GA at 2.5 per million)

Yes it does. But you do need to look deeper and can here. CX's single recorded fatal event since 1970 was actually in 1972 - and the result of a bomb exploding midflight (although a more recent near miss seems to be somewhat scarier). Also, the statistics might well be different factoring in hours flying as well as number of flights - SQ and CX have much higher proportion of long haul flights, than say Garuda, who have extensive domestic operations. I guess though many incidents occur around take off/landing and related maneuvers and not during cruise, so number of flights may be an appropriate metric.

 

[auriga]

There are so many other things we do each day that would have a higher risk than flying onboard a Garuda jet. Personally, I would not hesitate to do so.

 

[oz_mark]

although a more recent near miss seems to be somewhat scarier).

Lots of near misses for just about every airline. Consider QF's near miss with a US Air Force C-5 Galaxy in 1990 for scary.