Airbus A220-300
The stretched CS300 — the A220 most airlines actually buy · First flight 2015 · In service 2016
The A220-300 is the Bombardier CS300 under its Airbus name: the CS100 stretched by 3.7 m to 38.7 m, with the same 35.1 m composite wing and PW1500G geared turbofans. It first flew on 27 February 2015, was certified by Transport Canada on 11 July 2016, and airBaltic took the first delivery on 28 November 2016, starting revenue service on 14 December 2016.
When Airbus took control of the CSeries on 1 July 2018 and renamed it the A220, the larger model became the family's best-seller. A second final assembly line in Mobile, Alabama, started production in August 2019 and delivered its first aircraft in October 2020; maximum take-off weight rose to 70.9 t in 2021, and Breeze Airways flies examples with extra fuel tanks for about 4,000 nmi. A further stretch, the A220-500, has been studied but not launched.
airBaltic runs an all-A220-300 fleet, and Air Canada (from December 2019), JetBlue (from December 2020), Air France (from September 2021), Breeze, Korean Air, Swiss and ITA Airways are among its many operators. By October 2026 around 480 A220-300s were in service with more than 20 airlines, against about 75 of the smaller -100.
