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Measure vs. Percentile

Carrier violations or crashes are weighted by time and severity to produce a measure for that carrier in each BASIC. The measure is then used to assign that carrier to a percentile rank containing carriers’ information in similar safety event groups. Expand for more information.

Carrier violations or crashes are weighted by time and severity to produce a measure for that carrier in each BASIC. The measure only considers individual performance based on 24 months of data, with a measure of 0 indicating best performance. The measure is then used to assign that carrier to a percentile rank containing carriers’ information in similar safety event groups. The graph below shows how the carrier’s measure correlates with its percentile rank over a selected period of time.

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Measure Percentile
0 0
0.23 1
0.35 2
0.46 3
0.57 4
0.67 5
0.77 6
0.86 7
1.00 8
1.06 9
1.15 10
1.25 11
1.34 12
1.43 13
1.52 14
1.62 15
1.72 16
1.81 17
1.90 18
2.02 19
2.09 20
2.19 21
2.28 22
2.38 23
2.47 24
2.56 25
2.67 26
2.76 27
2.86 28
2.94 29
3.03 30
3.14 31
3.25 32
3.34 33
3.45 34
3.55 35
3.67 36
3.76 37
3.85 38
4.00 39
4.04 40
4.17 41
4.26 42
4.37 43
4.46 44
4.58 45
4.68 46
4.80 47
4.90 48
5.03 49
5.14 50
5.26 51
5.38 52
5.51 53
5.62 54
5.73 55
5.85 56
6.01 57
6.11 58
6.25 59
6.38 60
6.52 61
6.67 62
6.79 63
6.92 64
7.07 65
7.22 66
7.39 67
7.55 68
7.70 69
7.86 70
8.04 71
8.21 72
8.39 73
8.58 74
8.78 75
9.01 76
9.18 77
9.40 78
9.61 79
9.84 80
10.07 81
10.31 82
10.57 83
10.84 84
11.15 85
11.48 86
11.83 87
12.19 88
12.60 89
13.02 90
13.42 91
13.92 92
14.51 93
15.11 94
15.84 95
16.60 96
17.71 97
19.26 98
21.52 99
30.00 100