{"id":35083,"date":"2019-05-07T10:27:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T02:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=35083"},"modified":"2019-05-07T10:27:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T02:27:26","slug":"what-are-the-worlds-best-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2019\/05\/07\/what-are-the-worlds-best-airlines\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the world&#8217;s best airlines?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>With the busy summer travel season making its approach and Boeing under fire after two fatal crashes, WalletHub released its report on <\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wallethub.com\/edu\/best-airlines\/20916\/\"><strong>2019\u2019s Best Airlines<\/strong><\/a><strong>. WalletHub&#8217;s study focuses not just on price but also many other aspects of the air travel experience, such as safety, delays, baggage issues, animal incidents, passenger complaints and more.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The overall winners include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Best Overall<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Alaska Airlines earned the highest overall WalletHub Score (63.52) for the third year in a row, followed by Delta Air Lines (59.69).<br>&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Most Reliable \u2013&nbsp;<\/strong>Delta Air Lines has the lowest overall rate of cancelations, delays, mishandled luggage and denied boardings. The next most reliable company is Hawaiian Airlines.<br>&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Safety<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 Alaska Airlines is the safest, having a low number of incidents and accidents per 100,000 flight operations, no fatalities, under 15 persons injured in the last 6 years and a relatively new fleet of aircrafts. The safety runner-up is Spirit Airlines.<br>&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Most Pet-Friendly \u2013&nbsp;<\/strong>Two airlines tied for being most pet-friendly, ExpressJet and Envoy Air, with no incidents.<br>&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Most Comfortable \u2013<\/strong>&nbsp;JetBlue Airways leads the pack in terms of in-flight experience, offering free amenities such as Wi-Fi, extra legroom, and complimentary snacks and beverages. Alaska Airlines, United Airlines, Southwest Airlines &amp; Delta Air Lines are tied for the second position for this category.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska Airlines earned the highest overall WalletHub Score (63.52) for the third year in a row, followed by Delta Air Lines (59.69).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":35084,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,637],"tags":[6719,6720,6721,628],"class_list":["post-35083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-motoring-2","tag-airlines","tag-alaska-airlines","tag-delta-air-lines","tag-motoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}