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Summary

There were 5.05 million passengers carried on Australian domestic commercial aviation (including charter operations) in June 2025, compared with 4.93 million in June 2024 (up 2.4 per cent). This is also an increase of 2.7 per cent on pre-COVID June 2019 passenger numbers (4.92 million).

4.70 million passengers were carried on Regular Public Transport (RPT) flights in June 2025 (excluding charter operations), an increase of 2.4 per cent compared to June 2024.

For the month of June 2025, there were 48.9 thousand RPT aircraft trips, a decrease of 0.9 per cent on June 2024.

RPT revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs) performed were 5.69 billion for the month, compared with 5.51 billion in June 2024 (up 3.4 per cent).

Capacity, measured by available seat kilometres (ASKs), increased to 7.10 billion in June 2025 compared to 6.98 billion in June 2024 (up 1.7 per cent).

The industry wide load factor (RPKs/ASKs) increased from 78.8 per cent in June 2024 to 80.1 per cent in June 2025.

Total cargo movements at Australian airports on domestic RPT flights were 26.2 thousand tonnes in 
June 2025, an increase of 4.8 per cent compared with June 2024.

In June 2025, there were 2.08 million domestic passenger movements through regional airports, an increase of 4.4 per cent from June 2024.

Fixed-wing charter operators carried 349.2 thousand passengers in June 2025, an increase of 3.7 per cent compared with June 2024.

Summary of annual RPT activity

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