Airbus Updates No.4657

Swiss to dismantle some Airbus A220-100's

In October 2025, Swiss made a decision to park the majority of its Airbus A220-100s and use them as donors to keep its A220-300s in service. That decision was made due to the issues with the aircraft's Pratt & Whitney GTF-engines and the unavailability of replacement engines and parts. Now, the airline has announced that two of the A220-100s will not return to service and will be dismantled completely.

Swiss was the launch customer for the A220, called CSeries back in the day, and has taken delivery of nine A220-100s and 21 A220-300s. They decided to park the A220-100s as the -300 provide better economics.

According to the airline, they aren't planning to phase-out the A220 itself. The A220 isn't the only type that suffers from GTF-engine issues. Also the Airbus A320neo-family and the Embraer E2s suffers from the same challenges. Swiss currently also has five of its six A320neos and one of its seven A321neos parked.

Pratt & Whitney has said it expects the majority of the GTF-issues to be resolved by 2027. However, a retrofit of the engines of aircraft currently parked can take up to 300 days. This means returning parked aircraft back to service has a long lead time.

The current status of the Swiss A220-100s is:

• HB-JBA (50010), stored at Zurich since May 2026.
• HB-JBB (50011), stored at Toulouse-Francazal since April 2026.
• HB-JBC (50012), withdrawn from use in November 2025, and stored at Toulouse-Francazal since January 2026 and to be dismantled.
• HB-JBD (50013), withdrawn from use in November 2025, and stored at Toulouse-Francazal since January 2026 and to be dismantled.
• HB-JBE (50014), stored at Toulouse-Francazal since April 2026.
• HB-JBF (50015), currently active.
• HB-JBG (50016), stored at Maastricht since November 2024.
• HB-JBH (50017), stored at Toulouse-Francazal since May 2026.
• HB-JBI (50018), currently active.

Photo by Anton Homma.

Airbus Updates No.2072

Delta commences A220 revenue operations

Delta Air Lines Airbus A220-100 © Delta Air Lines

08.02.2019 - 06:43 UTC

Delta Air Lines (DL, Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson) deployed its fleet of A220-100s into revenue service on Thursday, February 7, following a week-long delay brought on by the recent US government shutdown.

The airline had originally intended to deploy the type into service on January 31 but was forced to delay that date as no US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials were available to complete the type's addition to Delta's OpSpecs.

The airline said in a statement that its first official service with the A220-100 was as flight DL744 between New York La Guardia and Boston conducted by N102DU (msn 50021).

"We have big plans for this aircraft," Chuck Imhof, Vice President - New York and Sales, East, said. "It will be an integral part of our future domestic fleet and will deliver an experience our customers will look forward to every time they fly."

ch-aviation research shows Delta has four A220s in active service at present time. It has a further thirty-six on order from C Series Aircraft coupled with fifty A220-300s.

Airbus Updates No.1946

Air Tahiti mulls E2, A220s for regional expansion

Air Tahiti ATR72-600 © Avions de Transport Régional

22.09.2018 - 03:45 UTC

Air Tahiti (VT, Papeete) is evaluating ordering two A220-100s or EMB-195 E2s for its planned regional expansion, with the deliveries foreseen in the next two to three years, Managing Director Manate Vivish told Air Transport World.

The French Polynesian regional carrier is looking at jets seating up to 100 passengers.

One of the routes where a regional jet could take over from Avions de Transport Régional turboprops would be the carrier's trunk Papeete-Bora Bora service.

According to the ch-aviation fleets module, the carrier currently operates three Beech King Air 200s, two ATR42-600s, seven ATR72-600s on a nearly exclusively domestic network in French Polynesia. The airline serves 43 domestic destinations, operating sectors ranging from 20 to 1650-kilometre long. Its only international destination is Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, served 1x weekly from Papeete.

Vivish said that Air Tahiti would also look at adding more international services to its network. He added that out of the entire network, only five to six routes are financially sustainable, while the others are loss-making.

Air Tahiti, despite being 13% owned by the local government, does not receive any subsidies. It is unrelated to state-owned and long-haul-focused Air Tahiti Nui (TN, Papeete).