Aircraft/Airbus
Is the Airbus A321ceo safe?
The honest safety record for the Airbus A321ceo, 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.
0.04
modelled fatal rate / million flights
37.5M
flights flown since 1994
1 / 6
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 A321ceo is the stretched member of the original A320 family and has flown in airline service since January 1994. In more than three decades it has had one fatal accident attributable to airframe or operational causes, the 2010 Airblue approach accident near Islamabad, which killed all 152 people on board. Its other write-offs, including a maintenance fire at Doha in 2017, a wingtip strike at New York in 2019, a bird strike forced landing near Moscow in 2019 and a cabin battery fire at Busan in 2025, killed nobody.
Engine programme: Method: effective in-service fleet-years multiplied by typical annual departures per aircraft. Delivery curve (Airbus O and D via Wikipedia, 1,784 A321ceo delivered through 30 Jun 2025, production wound down about 2021): about 200 delivered by end 2000, 570 by end 2010, 1,400 by end 2016, essentially complete by 2021; retirements light so far (1,701 of 1,784 still in service June 2025). Average in EXCLUSIONS: EXCLUDED under the deliberate-act policy: (1) Metrojet Flight 9268, A321-231 EI-ETJ, 31 Oct 2015, destroyed over Sinai by a bomb, 224 fatalities. Removed from both fatal and hull counts. (2) Daallo Airlines Flight 159, A321-111 SX-BHS, 2 Feb 2016, onboard bomb blew a hole in the fuselage, 1 fatality (the bomber, who was ejected); the aircraft landed safely and is not counted as a hull loss in any
Who flies the Airbus A321ceo, 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 A321ceo aircraft; otherwise we say so rather than estimate.
| Airline | In our registry | Average age |
|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines | 90 | 7.1 yrs |
| American Airlines | 31 | 14.6 yrs |
| Asiana Airlines | 14 | 12 yrs |
| Jetblue Airways | 13 | 8.9 yrs |
| Air Busan | 13 | 18.6 yrs |
| Swiss International Air Lines | 8 | 25.3 yrs |
| Air France | 4 | 21.3 yrs |
| Lan Airlines | 4 | 10.3 yrs |
| Lufthansa | 4 | 17.8 yrs |
| Qatar Airways | 4 | 17.5 yrs |
| All Nippon Airways | 4 | 9.8 yrs |
| Iberia Airlines | 2 | not enough dated |