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Summary—November 2025

For November 2025, on time performance over all routes operated by participating airlines (Hinterland, Jetstar, Qantas, QantasLink, Rex Airlines, SmartLynx Australia (formerly Skytrans), Virgin Australia and Virgin Australia Regional Airlines) averaged 69.0% for on time arrivals and 71.5% for on time departures. The cancellation rate for the month was 3.0%. The equivalent figures for November 2024 were 68.4% for on time arrivals, 69.0% for on time departures and 2.6% for cancellations.

This month’s on time arrivals figure was lower than the long term average performance for all routes (80.6%) and the on time departures figure was also lower than the long term average (81.7%). The rate of cancellations was higher than the long term average of 2.2%.

The Qantas network (Qantas and QantasLink combined operations) recorded 70.1% for on time arrivals while the Virgin Australia network (Virgin Australia and Virgin Australia Regional Airlines combined operations) recorded 67.2%. Hinterland achieved the highest on time arrivals at 91.8%, followed by SmartLynx Australia at 81.7%, QantasLink at 72.0%, Virgin Australia at 67.2%, Rex Airlines at 67.1%, Qantas at 66.8%, Jetstar at 64.8% and Virgin Australia Regional Airlines at 64.5%.

The Qantas network recorded 72.9% for on time departures while the Virgin Australia network recorded 70.5%. Hinterland achieved the highest level of on time departures for November 2025 at 95.1%, followed by SmartLynx Australia at 77.3%, QantasLink at 73.0%, Qantas at 72.7%, Rex Airlines at 71.8%, Virgin Australia at 70.6%, and Jetstar and Virgin Australia Regional Airlines at 64.0%.

Jetstar recorded the highest percentage of cancellations at 4.7% during the month, followed by QantasLink at 4.2%, Qantas at 2.7%, SmartLynx Australia at 2.5%, Rex Airlines at 2.0%, Virgin Australia at 1.5%, Virgin Australia Regional Airlines at 1.1% and Hinterland at 0.0%.

Airlines’ on time performance varies across the routes they serve. Individual route data by specific airline for 59 routes are shown on pages 10-21.

Of the 59 routes which met the criteria for on time performance reporting in November 2025, the Adelaide-Gold Coast route had the highest percentage of on time arrivals (95.5%) and the highest percentage of on time departures (91.0%). The Brisbane-Perth route had the lowest percentage of on time arrivals (27.7%) while the Darwin-Melbourne route had the lowest percentage of on time departures (43.3%).

Cancellations were highest on the Darwin-Perth route at 8.0%, followed by the Darwin-Melbourne route at 7.7%, the Melbourne-Darwin route at 6.2%, the Perth-Darwin route at 6.1%, the Adelaide-Port Lincoln and Port Lincoln-Adelaide routes at 6.0% and the Melbourne-Launceston route at 5.6%.

Newman Airport recorded the highest percentage of on time arrivals (83.4%), while Mackay Airport had the highest percentage of on time departures (83.1%). Perth Airport recorded the lowest percentage of on time arrivals (55.5%) while Alice Springs Airport had the lowest percentage of on time departures (50.0%). These figures only refer to reported routes and do not cover all flights at these airports.

Table 1: Total Industry On Time performance for November 2025

Figure 1: Total Industry On Time performance by month from November 2022