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Summary

There were 5.55 million passengers carried on Australian domestic commercial aviation (including charter operations) in November 2025, compared with 5.43 million in November 2024 (up 2.2%). This is also an increase of 1.2% on pre-COVID November 2019 passenger numbers (5.49 million).

5.20 million passengers were carried on Regular Public Transport (RPT) flights in November 2025 (excluding charter operations), an increase of 2.1% compared to November 2024.

For the month of November 2025, there were 49.5 thousand RPT aircraft trips, virtually no change compared to November 2024.

RPT revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs) performed were 6.19 billion for the month, compared with 6.04 billion in November 2024 (up 2.4%).

Capacity, measured by available seat kilometres (ASKs), increased to 7.27 billion in November 2025 compared to 6.94 billion in November 2024 (up 4.7%).

The industry wide load factor (RPKs/ASKs) decreased from 87.0% in November 2024 to 85.2% in November 2025.

Total cargo movements at Australian airports on domestic RPT flights were 27.3 thousand tonnes in November 2025, a decrease of 2.7% compared with November 2024.

In November 2025, there were 2.12 million domestic passenger movements through regional airports, an increase of 1.3% from November 2024.

Fixed-wing charter operators carried 353.4 thousand passengers in November 2025, an increase of 3.4% compared with November 2024.

Summary of annual RPT activity

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