Leaving on a jet plane? Here are the top 20 safest airlines for 2016

This has been a busy week for most people. Workers are back at their jobs after the holidays, and children are back in school. Business and leisure travelers are planning to trips to locations as exotic as Dubai and as mundane as Omaha. But wherever they’re going, travelers hope to travel safely and arrive on time.

To find out what those safe airlines are, many travelers turn to AirlineRatings.com, which calls itself “the world’s only safety and product rating website.” On Jan. 6, AirlineRatings.com announced its top 20 safest airlines and top 10 safest low-cost airlines for 2016 from the 407 it monitors. Carriers that write Aviation insurance also are interested in airlines’ safety ratings as another measure for quantifying risk.