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Summary

There were 5.09 million passengers carried on Australian domestic commercial aviation (including charter operations) in March 2025, compared with 5.32 million in March 2024 (down 4.4 per cent).

This is also a decrease of 3.5 per cent on pre-COVID March 2019 passenger numbers (5.27 million).

4.75 million passengers were carried on Regular Public Transport (RPT) flights in March 2025 (excluding charter operations), a decrease of 4.6 per cent compared to March 2024.

For the month of March 2025, there were 49.1 thousand RPT aircraft trips, a decrease of 5.4 per cent on March 2024.

RPT revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs) performed were 5.59 billion for the month, compared with 5.81 billion in March 2024 (down 3.8 per cent).

Capacity, measured by available seat kilometres (ASKs), decreased to 6.93 billion in March 2025 compared to 7.23 billion in March 2024 (down 4.1 per cent).

The industry wide load factor (RPKs/ASKs) increased from 80.4 per cent in March 2024 to 80.7 per cent in March 2025.

Total cargo movements at Australian airports on domestic RPT flights were 25.7 thousand tonnes in March 2025, an increase of 3.9 per cent compared with March 2024.

In March 2025, there were 1.99 million domestic passenger movements through regional airports, a decrease of 3.0 per cent from March 2024.

Fixed-wing charter operators carried 340.0 thousand passengers in March 2025, a decrease of 2.3 per cent compared with March 2024.

Summary of annual RPT activity

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