Aircraft/Airbus
Is the Airbus A319 safe?
The honest safety record for the Airbus A319, straight from the accident data. Context, not spin.
Informational only. Not safety, operational, or travel advice. These are estimates from public records, provided as-is; see our terms & disclaimer.
0.01
modelled fatal rate / million flights
41.5M
flights flown since 1996
0 / 4
fatal accidents / hull losses on record
The rate is the model's shrinkage-adjusted estimate, the same figure used in a flight's score, not a raw count ÷ flights ratio. See the methodology.
Specifications
What the record shows
The A319 is the shortened member of the A320 family and entered service with Swissair in April 1996. In thirty years of airline flying no one has been killed in a flight accident involving the type. One passenger death is on record: in May 2026 a passenger fell on the stairs while leaving a parked LATAM A319 at Sao Paulo Congonhas and died two days later in hospital. Five aircraft have been written off, all with no deaths on board: a ground collision while under tow at New York in 2003, a landing short of the runway at Palermo in 2010, a set of mobile stairs that struck the tail during boarding at Frankfurt in 2019, a hangar door that struck an aircraft under maintenance at Naples in 2020 with nobody aboard, and a rejected takeoff at Chongqing in 2022. Aircraft destroyed on the ground by military action are excluded from this rate by policy.
Who flies the Airbus A319, and how old theirs are
Counted from individual airframes in our registry, with build years from public registries and sourced references. An age appears only where we can date at least three of that airline's Airbus A319 aircraft; otherwise we say so rather than estimate.
| Airline | In our registry | Average age |
|---|---|---|
| American Airlines | 95 | 22.6 yrs |
| United Airlines | 71 | 25.5 yrs |
| Delta Air Lines | 57 | 24.6 yrs |
| British Airways | 23 | 23.9 yrs |
| Tam Linhas Aéreas | 19 | 16.8 yrs |
| Avianca | 16 | 14.3 yrs |
| Air Canada rouge LP | 13 | 28.4 yrs |
| Swiss International Air Lines | 5 | 29.8 yrs |
| Qantas | 4 | 21.2 yrs |
| Air France | 3 | 24.5 yrs |
| Iberia Airlines | 2 | not enough dated |
| Lufthansa | 2 | not enough dated |