Air China Safety Rating Cut to Six Stars (airlineratings.com)

Air China's safety rating on AirlineRatings.com dropped from Seven-Stars to Six-Stars after an auditor observed cabin crew failing on power bank and turbulence management during flight CA848 from London Gatwick to Shanghai Pudong on 19 October 2026. Crew allowed a passenger to charge a device from a power bank and did not seat passengers moving about during sustained turbulence over Russia, despite an announcement in Chinese and English. Air China must show its crew enforce its own power bank ban and conduct cabin checks during turbulence to regain the seventh star.