Airline on-time performance statistics—monthly summary

• Airline on-time performance—monthly reports and time series data
• Airline on-time performance—annual reports (financial and calendar years)

Summary—June 2026

For June 2026, on-time performance over all routes operated by participating airlines (Hinterland, Jetstar, Qantas, QantasLink, Rex Airlines, Skytrans Australia (formerly SmartLynx Australia), Virgin Australia and Virgin Australia Regional Airlines) averaged 81.1% for on-time arrivals and 81.9% for on-time departures. The cancellation rate for the month was 1.5%. The equivalent figures for June 2025 were 79.0% for on-time arrivals, 79.6% for on-time departures and 2.4% for cancellations. 

This month’s on-time arrivals figure was higher than the long-term average (average over the period of OTP reporting starting in November 2003) performance for all routes (80.5%) and the on-time departures figure was also higher than the long-term average (81.6%). The rate of cancellations was lower than the long-term average of 2.2%. 

On-time arrivals

The Qantas network (Qantas and QantasLink combined operations) recorded 83.8% for on-time arrivals while the Virgin Australia network (Virgin Australia and Virgin Australia Regional Airlines combined operations) recorded 79.4%. Hinterland achieved the highest on-time arrivals at 93.1%, followed by Qantas at 84.6%, QantasLink at 83.4%, Virgin Australia at 79.5%, Skytrans Australia at 78.3%, Virgin Australia Regional Airlines at 77.5%, Jetstar at 76.9% and Rex Airlines at 76.2%.

On-time departures

The Qantas network recorded 84.8% for on-time departures while the Virgin Australia network recorded 80.8%. Hinterland achieved the highest level of on-time departures for June 2026 at 95.7%, followed by Qantas at 87.8%, QantasLink at 83.1%, Virgin Australia at 80.8%, Skytrans Australia at 80.6%, Virgin Australia Regional Airlines at 79.8%, Rex Airlines at 78.6% and Jetstar at 75.0%.

Cancellations

Virgin Australia Regional Airlines recorded the highest percentage of cancellations at 3.7% during the month. The second highest cancellation rate was from Skytrans Australia at 2.5%, QantasLink at 2.4%, Rex Airlines at 1.5%, Qantas at 1.3%, Virgin Australia at 1.2%, Jetstar at 0.9% and Hinterland at 0.4%.

Routes

Airlines’ on-time performance varies across the routes they serve. Individual route data by specific airline for 59 routes (118 sectors when counting both directions of flights) are shown on pages 10-21.

Of the 59 routes which met the criteria for on-time performance reporting in June 2026, the Adelaide-Canberra sector had the highest percentage of on-time arrivals (92.8%), while the Broome-Perth sector had the highest percentage of on-time departures (93.8%). The Hamilton Island-Sydney sector had the lowest percentage of on-time arrivals (62.5%) and the lowest percentage of on-time departures (54.2%). 

Cancellations were highest on the Canberra-Sydney sector at 4.6%, followed by the Canberra-Adelaide sector at 4.4%, the Kalgoorlie-Perth sector at 4.2%, the Port Lincoln-Adelaide and Launceston-Melbourne sectors at 4.0%, and the Port Macquarie-Sydney, Canberra-Melbourne and Sydney-Port Macquarie sectors at 3.7%.

For the month of June 2026 35 of the 118 route sectors (from the 59 routes) had zero cancellations: Adelaide-Alice Springs, Adelaide-Gold Coast, Alice Springs-Adelaide, Ballina-Sydney, Brisbane-Cairns, Brisbane-Darwin, Brisbane-Hamilton Island, Brisbane-Launceston, Brisbane-Mount Isa, Brisbane-Newcastle, Brisbane-Proserpine, Cairns-Melbourne, Cairns-Sydney, Canberra-Gold Coast, Darwin-Brisbane, Darwin-Melbourne, Darwin-Perth, Gold Coast-Adelaide, Gold Coast-Canberra, Hamilton Island-Brisbane, Hamilton Island-Sydney, Launceston-Brisbane, Melbourne-Cairns, Melbourne-Darwin, Melbourne-Sunshine Coast, Mount Isa-Brisbane, Newcastle-Brisbane, Perth-Darwin, Perth-Newman, Proserpine-Brisbane, Sunshine Coast-Melbourne, Sydney-Ballina, Sydney-Cairns, Sydney-Hamilton Island, Melbourne-Ayers Rock. 

Airports

Broome Airport recorded the highest percentage of on-time arrivals (91.4%) and the highest percentage of on-time departures (93.8%). Launceston Airport recorded the lowest percentage of on-time arrivals (72.0%) while Alice Springs Airport had the lowest percentage of on-time departures (60.0%). These figures only refer to reported routes and do not cover all flights at these airports.

Table 1: Total industry on-time performance for June 2026

Figure 1: Total industry on-time performance by month from June 2023