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2025 fuel burnAirbus A220-300
The A220-300 began as Bombardier's CSeries, and Airbus took over the programme in 2018 and renamed it. In the US it's flown by JetBlue, Delta and Breeze, and all of them started flying it recently.
- 804gallons per airborne hour
- 72.2seat-miles per gallon
- 136seats per flight on average
- 1,730gallons burned per flight
What the figures say
Airbus A220-300 ranks 16 of 25 types for seat-miles per gallon in 2025, at 72.2. The Boeing 737-800, the most common type in the table, flew 79.1, so a gallon on the Airbus A220-300 carried a seat 8.7% less far. Over 1,000 miles, one seat on this type accounts for about 135 kg of CO2 from the fuel burned.
US airlines burned 274 million gallons on the Airbus A220-300 in 2025, 1.5% of the fuel burned on all scheduled passenger flying, over 340 thousand airborne hours and 158 thousand departures. The average flight spent 2.2 hours in the air and burned 1,730 gallons.
Since 2022, when it was first flown in volume, the type's figure has fallen from 86.0 to 72.2 seat-miles per gallon (16%). The average flight got shorter, from 2.3 to 2.2 hours in the air, which tends to raise fuel burn per seat-mile, because take-off and climb take a larger share of the fuel on a short flight. Fuel per airborne hour rose 17%, from 689 to 804 gallons.
Airlines get different results from the same aircraft. Breeze Airways flew 80.7 seat-miles per gallon on it and JetBlue 61.6, a gap of 31%. It isn't the seat count: Breeze Airways put 137 seats on each flight and JetBlue 140. Flights were about the same length at both airlines, 2.1 and 2.0 hours in the air. What's left comes from taxi and holding time, weight, engines, how each airline operates and how it allocates fuel to types when it reports, and the filings can't separate those.
What one seat costs the climate
CO2 for one seat on an Airbus A220-300, from the fuel burned, at the 2025 average.
- 68 kgover 500 miles
- 135 kgover 1,000 miles
- 270 kgover 2,000 miles
Who flies it, and how they burn
Airbus A220-300 by airline, 2025
| Airline | Fuel (million gallons) | Gallons per airborne hour | Seats per flight | Hours per flight | Seat-miles per gallon |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JetBlue | 118 | 946 | 140 | 2.0 | 61.6 |
| Breeze Airways | 83 | 723 | 137 | 2.1 | 80.7 |
| Delta Air Lines | 72 | 719 | 130 | 2.5 | 79.9 |
Seats on the Airbus A220-300, airline by airline
The Airbus A220-300 has 130 seats at Delta Air Lines and 140 at JetBlue, 8% more on the same model. The seat count is what each airline reports for its own aircraft in 2025, for airlines with 10 or more.
Airbus A220-300 fleets, 2025
| Airline | Aircraft | Average seats | Fewest to most | Average age |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Air Lines | 36 | 130.0 | 130 | 2.2 |
| Breeze Airways | 46 | 137.0 | 137 | 1.4 |
| JetBlue | 59 | 140.0 | 140 | 1.5 |
See every airline's fleet on the fleets page.
Similar-sized aircraft
These types carry within about 25 seats of the Airbus A220-300, so they compete for the same routes.
How to read this. Fuel is what airlines issued to the type in 2025, as filed with the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics, counted only for the hours spent on scheduled passenger flights and divided by the hours in the air. It includes fuel burned taxiing and holding, so it's higher than the cruise figure in a manual. CO2 is 9.75 kg per gallon of jet fuel.
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Nearby in fuel efficiency
Types on either side of this one in the seat-miles per gallon table, regardless of size:
Source: US Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), Schedule T-2 fuel and airborne hours; US EPA jet-fuel CO2 factor. See the methodology and flight-hour definitions.
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