10. British Airways
Qantas, Australia s flag carrier, was named the world s safest airline for the third year in a row by the website.
Qantas holds the distinction of being the only airline that Dustin Hoffman s character in the 1988 movie Rain Man would fly because it had never crashed. The airline suffered fatal crashes of small aircraft prior to 1951, but has had no fatalities in the 70 years since.
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Qantas has had no passenger fatalities since the dawn of the jet era in the 1950s. Qantas has been the lead airline in virtually every major operational safety advancement over the past 60 years and has not had a fatality in the pure jet era, said Geoffrey Thomas, the website s editor-in-chief. But Qantas is not alone. Long established airlines such as Hawaiian and Finnair have perfect records in the jet era.
Snow, record Covid cases curtail Japan s 2021 celebrations
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TOKYO (REUTERS) - New coronavirus infections in Tokyo hit a record high of more than 1,300 on Thursday (Dec 31), raising fears of an explosion in cases, as New Year’s Eve celebrations were curtailed to help country battle a third wave of the pandemic.
The daily number of Covud-19 infections totalled 1,337 in the Japanese capital on Thursday, metropolitan government officials said, exceeding the 1,000 mark for the first time since the pandemic began earlier this year and deepening concerns about hospital capacity. Tokyo’s previous record of 949 cases was logged last Saturday.
Nationwide, the number of daily cases eclipsed 4,000 for the first time, with record new cases also reported in Fukuoka, Saitama and Gifu prefectures, according to a Kyodo News tally of figures released by local governments.