Airline On Time Performance Statistics - December 2011
For December 2011, on time performance over all routes operated by participating airlines (Jetstar, Qantas, QantasLink, Regional Express, Skywest Airlines, Tiger Airways, Virgin Australia and Virgin Australia – ATR Operations) averaged 81.3 per cent for on time departures, and 80.1 per cent for on time arrivals. Cancellations represented 1.2 per cent of all scheduled flights. The equivalent figures for December 2010 were 76.2 per cent for departures, 73.7 per cent for arrivals and 1.2 per cent for cancellations.
The long term average performance for all routes since reporting commenced in November 2003 is 84.1 per cent for on time departures and 82.8 per cent for on time arrivals. Cancellations average 1.2 per cent of all scheduled flights.
Tiger Airways operated on a reduced schedule with 782 sectors flown in December 2011 compared to 1 829 in December 2010.
Of the major domestic airlines, Tiger Airways achieved the highest level of on time departures for December 2011 at 91.6 per cent, followed by Qantas at 83.7 per cent, Virgin Australia at 82.9 per cent and Jetstar at 78.6 per cent. The regional airlines were led by Skywest at 85.8 per cent, followed by Regional Express at 83.8 per cent, QantasLink at 76.3 per cent and Virgin Australia – ATR Operations at 73.4 per cent.
Tiger Airways also achieved the highest on time arrivals among the major domestic airlines at 88.7 per cent, followed by Qantas at 83.3 per cent, Virgin Australia at 80.8 per cent and Jetstar at 79.9 per cent. Skywest was the best performing regional airline for on time arrivals at 85.0 per cent, followed by Regional Express at 81.4 per cent, QantasLink at 74.5 per cent and Virgin Australia – ATR Operations at 66.6 per cent.
QantasLink had the highest percentage of cancellations for December 2011 at 1.7 per cent, while Regional Express had the lowest percentage of cancellations at 0.2 per cent.
Of the 53 routes which met the criteria for on time performance reporting in December 2011, the Melbourne-Darwin route had the highest percentage of on time departures (95.8 per cent) and the Port Lincoln-Adelaide route had the highest percentage of on time arrivals (93.6 per cent). The Darwin-Brisbane route had the lowest percentage of on time departures (60.3 per cent) and the Ballina-Sydney route had the lowest percentage of on time arrivals (55.9 per cent).
Cancellations were highest on the Perth-Broome route at 7.1 per cent, followed by Broome-Perth at 6.9 per cent, Perth-Karratha and Karratha-Perth at 5.5 per cent, Newman-Perth at 5.0 per cent and Darwin-Perth and Port Hedland-Perth at 4.8 per cent.
Port Lincoln Airport recorded the highest percentage of on time departures (93.2 per cent) and the highest percentage of on time arrivals (92.9 per cent). Mackay Airport recorded the lowest percentage of on time departures (66.6 per cent) and the lowest percentage of on time arrivals (69.9 per cent). These figures only refer to reported routes and do not cover all flights at these airports.
Table 1: Total Industry On Time Performance for December 2011
Figure 1: Total Industry On Time Performance by month from December 2008
