I find it hard to believe people in the industry would give this 'survey' much credence.
From the link to their website:
ATRA HOLISTIC SAFETY RATING - Official website of the Air Transport Rating Agency - Geneva
it shows they have selected certain '
organizational criteria' as per the following quote:
"After analyzing the causes of a number of incidents and accidents, ATRA has selected 15 organizational criteria, which directly or indirectly contribute to general safety. Illegal activities have not been taken into account as it has been assumed that security check persons and luggage is under the responsibility of airport services.
The 15 selected criteria are:
- Net financial result
- Total number of passengers
- Total number of employees
- Total number of cabin crew employees
- Total number of aircrafts
- Average fleet age in service
- Percentage of aircrafts on order
- Fleet homogeneity
- Number of aircrafts no longer in production
- Number of aircrafts considered at risk
- Total aircrafts-km flown
- In house maintenance capability
- Number of accidents during the last 10 years
- Dedicated flight academy pilot-training facilities
- Dedicated full flight simulators"
Call me a purist, but I would have thought an absence of smoking holes in the ground and body parts were more likely to indicate safe(or lucky) airlines.
Clearly to have AirFance-KLM mentioned in the top 10, shows exactly where this survey should be filed.