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Summary—October 2025

For October 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 74.1% for on time arrivals and 75.2% for on time departures. The cancellation rate for the month was 2.1%. The equivalent figures for October 2024 were 74.5% for on time arrivals, 74.9% for on time departures and 1.8% 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 lower than the long term average of 2.2%.

The Qantas network (Qantas and QantasLink combined operations) recorded 75.2% for on time arrivals while the Virgin Australia network (Virgin Australia and Virgin Australia Regional Airlines combined operations) recorded 72.1%. Hinterland achieved the highest on time arrivals at 92.4%, followed by SmartLynx Australia at 83.2%, QantasLink at 77.1%, Jetstar at 73.1%, Virgin Australia at 72.2%, Qantas at 72.1%, Rex Airlines at 69.6% and Virgin Australia Regional Airlines at 61.9%.

The Qantas network recorded 76.8% for on time departures while the Virgin Australia network recorded 72.4%. Hinterland achieved the highest level of on time departures for October 2025 at 95.7%, followed by SmartLynx Australia at 88.3%, QantasLink at 77.0%, Qantas at 76.4%, Rex Airlines at 73.3%, Virgin Australia at 72.6%, Jetstar at 72.0 and Virgin Australia Regional Airlines at 56.3%.

SmartLynx Australia recorded the highest percentage of cancellations at 3.9% during the month, followed by QantasLink at 3.1%, Rex Airlines at 2.6%, Jetstar at 1.9%, Qantas at 1.8%, Virgin Australia at 1.4%, Virgin Australia Regional Airlines at 1.2% and Hinterland at 0.1%.

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 October 2025, the Brisbane-Mount Isa route had the highest percentage of on time arrivals (91.1%) and the highest percentage of on time departures (91.1%). The Sydney-Perth route had the lowest percentage of on time arrivals (51.3%) while the Sunshine Coast-Melbourne route had the lowest percentage of on time departures (52.2%).

Cancellations were highest on the Devonport-Melbourne route at 7.6%, followed by the Port Macquarie-Sydney route at 7.1%, the Melbourne-Devonport route at 7.0%, the Canberra-Sydney route at 6.9%, the Sydney-Canberra route at 6.8% and the Port Lincoln-Adelaide route at 6.2%.

Mount Isa Airport recorded the highest percentage of on time arrivals (91.1%) and the highest percentage of on time departures (88.5%). Port Macquarie Airport recorded the lowest percentage of on time arrivals (62.6%) while Sunshine Coast Airport had the lowest percentage of on time departures (58.9%). These figures only refer to reported routes and do not cover all flights at these airports.

Table 1: Total Industry On Time performance for October 2025

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