Blacklisted

Airline’s with poor safety standards could soon be blacklisted in the EU, after the European Parliament voted in favor of compiling such a list, the Wall Street Journal reported this week.

Information on the safety of a public service can’t be bad, and in this instance is likely to encourage airlines to buckle up in an attempt to avoid a place on the list. So hopefully it should lead to a higher average safety level in the skies

My only concern though with this kind of a list, is about its accuracy, particularly with regard to the types of measures that will be used to determine black-list status. Often with these types of lists, be they about hospital rankings or air safety, ‘switched on’ companies wise up and manipulate their results.