Aircraft/Airbus (programme launched by Bombardier as the CSeries CS300)
Is the Airbus A220-300 safe?
The honest safety record for the Airbus A220-300, 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.
0.24
modelled fatal rate / million flights
1.9M
flights flown since 2016
1 / 1
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 A220-300 entered service in December 2016 with airBaltic as the Bombardier CS300, and was renamed after Airbus took majority control of the programme in July 2018. In its first decade it has recorded one fatal accident, a Swiss flight in December 2024 where an engine failure filled the cabin with smoke and one cabin crew member died a week later, and one hull loss, an airBaltic aircraft destroyed by a fire during ground maintenance in June 2025 with nobody on board. Its recurring engineering issue has been the Pratt & Whitney PW1500G engine, which has caused several in-flight shutdowns and periods where part of the fleet was grounded for inspection.
Engine programme: Family deliveries by year end (Wikipedia A220 orders and deliveries table, as of June 2026: 526 delivered, 451 of them -300 and 75 -100): 2016 7, 2017 24, 2018 57, 2019 105, 2020 143, 2021 193, 2022 246, 2023 314, 2024 389, 2025 482, June 2026 526. Splitting out the -300 gives approximate year-end -300 fleets of 2, 16, 40, 75, 95, 135, 185, 248, 327, 415 and about 460 by late July 2026. Taking eac EXCLUSIONS: Excluded under the deliberate-act policy: the death of a man at Salt Lake City on 1 January 2024, who held a boarding pass for a different flight, breached an emergency exit onto the apron and climbed into the engine of a Delta A220 awaiting de-icing. Excluded on two grounds, he was not an occupant of the aircraft, and it was a deliberate unauthorised act rather than an airframe or operational fai
Who flies the Airbus A220-300, 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 A220-300 aircraft; otherwise we say so rather than estimate.
| Airline | In our registry | Average age |
|---|---|---|
| Air Canada | 23 | not enough dated |
| Swiss International Air Lines | 20 | 8.4 yrs |
| Delta Air Lines | 11 | 5.4 yrs |
| Jetblue Airways | 10 | 4.9 yrs |
| Air France | 9 | not enough dated |
| Korean Air | 7 | not enough dated |