For those of us venturing outside the warm embrace of the big carriers, the web has a bit of info about individual airline’s safety records.
For example, the FAA has a list of carriers that meet it’s standards here. It lists only those carriers allowed to fly to the U.S.
More comprehensive is the International Air Transport Association’s cite, listing those with a passing grade on their audit of 251 members. You can order the audit results via email.
The E.U. maintains a nice PDF list of airlines banned from European skies here. Interestingly, about half are based in Congo.
For more info, today’s NY Times has an article here which served as the source for these links above.