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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| American Airlines | 191 | 14 yrs |
| Delta Air Lines | 99 | 7.6 yrs |
| JetBlue Airways | 59 | 10.2 yrs |
| Tam Linhas Aéreas | 35 | 12.8 yrs |
| Air Canada | 34 | 17 yrs |
| Spirit Airlines | 24 | 9.7 yrs |
| Asiana Airlines | 14 | 12.1 yrs |
| Air Busan | 13 | 18.7 yrs |
| Swiss International Air Lines | 9 | 24.1 yrs |
| Qatar Airways | 4 | 17.7 yrs |
| Air France | 4 | 21.5 yrs |
| Lufthansa | 4 | 18 yrs |