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Summary—February 2026

For February 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 78.2% for on time arrivals and 79.7% for on time departures. The cancellation rate for the month was 2.4%. The equivalent figures for February 2025 were 80.3% for on time arrivals, 80.5% for on time departures and 2.6% for cancellations.

This month’s on time arrivals figure was lower 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 lower than the long term average (81.6%). The rate of cancellations was higher than the long term average of 2.2%.

On time arrivals

The Qantas network (Qantas and QantasLink combined operations) recorded 82.0% for on time arrivals while the Virgin Australia network (Virgin Australia and Virgin Australia Regional Airlines combined operations) recorded 79.7%. Hinterland achieved the highest on time arrivals at 87.9%, followed by QantasLink at 82.6%, Qantas at 80.8%, Virgin Australia at 79.7%, Virgin Australia Regional Airlines at 79.0%, Jetstar at 72.1%, Skytrans Australia at 71.5% and Rex Airlines at 64.7%.

On time departures

The Qantas network recorded 83.9% for on time departures while the Virgin Australia network recorded 81.6%. Hinterland achieved the highest level of on time departures for February 2026 at 91.5%, followed by Qantas at 85.1%, QantasLink at 83.2%, Virgin Australia at 81.8%, Skytrans Australia at 76.6%, Virgin Australia Regional Airlines at 73.9%, Jetstar at 69.6% and Rex Airlines at 69.4%.

Cancellations

Rex Airlines recorded the highest percentage of cancellations at 4.0% during the month. The second highest cancellation rate was from QantasLink at 3.4%, followed by Virgin Australia Regional Airlines at 2.8%, Skytrans Australia at 2.6%, Jetstar at 2.4%, Qantas at 1.8%, Virgin Australia at 1.4% and Hinterland at 1.0%.

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 February 2026, the Brisbane-Mount Isa sector had the highest percentage of on time arrivals (96.9%) and the highest percentage of on time departures (100.0%). The Hamilton Island-Sydney sector had the lowest percentage of on time arrivals (52.1%) and the lowest percentage of on time departures (56.3%).

Cancellations were highest on the Port Macquarie-Sydney sector at 8.4%, followed by the Sydney-Port Macquarie sector at 8.2%, the Dubbo-Sydney sector at 7.5%, the Sydney-Dubbo sector at 7.4%, the Canberra-Sydney sector at 7.2%, the Sydney-Canberra sector at 6.8%, the Mildura-Melbourne sector at 5.6% and the Launceston-Melbourne sector at 5.4%.

For the month of February 2026 there were 28 out of the 118 route sectors (from the 59 routes) that had zero cancellations: Adelaide-Alice Springs, Adelaide-Gold Coast, Alice Springs-Adelaide, Brisbane-Darwin, Brisbane-Hamilton Island, Brisbane-Launceston, Brisbane-Mount Isa, Brisbane-Perth, Brisbane-Rockhampton, Cairns-Melbourne, Canberra-Gold Coast, Darwin-Brisbane, Darwin-Melbourne, Gold Coast-Adelaide, Gold Coast-Canberra, Hamilton Island-Brisbane, Hamilton Island-Sydney, Launceston-Brisbane, Melbourne-Cairns, Melbourne-Darwin, Melbourne-Sunshine Coast, Newman-Perth, Perth-Brisbane, Perth-Newman, Sunshine Coast-Melbourne, Sydney-Hamilton Island, Ayers Rock-Melbourne, Melbourne-Ayers Rock.

Airports

Mount Isa Airport recorded the highest percentage of on time arrivals (96.9%), while Emerald Airport had the highest percentage of on time departures (96.4%). Dubbo Airport recorded the lowest percentage of on time arrivals (62.7%) while Proserpine Airport had the lowest percentage of on time departures (64.6%). These figures only refer to reported routes and do not cover all flights at these airports.

Table 1: Total Industry On Time performance for February 2026

Figure 1: Total Industry On Time performance by month from February 2023