Aircraft/Airbus (programme launched by Bombardier as the CSeries CS100)
Is the Airbus A220-100 safe?
In short: the Airbus A220-100 has no fatal accidents and no hull losses on record. Here is the full picture, with the underlying numbers.
Informational only. Not safety, operational, or travel advice. These are estimates from public records, provided as-is; see our terms & disclaimer.
0.11
modelled fatal rate / million flights
0.5M
flights flown since 2016
0 / 0
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 A220-100 is the shorter member of the family and entered service on 15 July 2016 with Swiss as the Bombardier CS100, before Airbus took over the programme in July 2018. About 75 have been built, most of them for Delta, and the variant has recorded no fatal accidents and no hull losses in ten years of service. Its occurrence file is dominated by engine shutdowns and cabin fume or odour events of the same kind seen on the larger A220-300, and because the fleet is small the clean record reflects a thin statistical base rather than a long proven one.
Engine programme: 75 A220-100 delivered through June 2026 (Wikipedia deliveries table), 71 in service (Swiss is parting out two of its own). Bottom-up aircraft-years: Delta's 45 aircraft delivered mostly 2019 to 2020, about 6.5 years each = about 292 aircraft-years; Swiss's 9 delivered 2016 to 2017, about 9.5 years each = about 85 aircraft-years; the remaining roughly 21 aircraft averaging about 3 years = about 63 EXCLUSIONS: Excluded under the deliberate-act policy: the 1 January 2024 death at Salt Lake City of a man who held a boarding pass for a different flight, breached an emergency exit door onto the apron and climbed into the engine of Delta A220-100 N108DQ while it awaited de-icing. He was not an occupant of the aircraft and the act was deliberate and unauthorised, so it is not an airframe or operational safety
Who flies the Airbus A220-100, 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 A220-100 aircraft; otherwise we say so rather than estimate.
| Airline | In our registry | Average age |
|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines | 39 | 6.4 yrs |
| Swiss International Air Lines | 7 | 9.8 yrs |