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Summary—August 2025

For August 2025, on time performance over all routes operated by participating airlines (Hinterland, Jetstar, Qantas, QantasLink, Rex Airlines, SmartLynx Australia (formally Skytrans), Virgin Australia and Virgin Australia Regional Airlines) averaged 74.6% for on time arrivals and 75.5% for on time departures. The cancellation rate for the month was 2.4%. The equivalent figures for August 2024 were 72.7% for on time arrivals, 74.1% for on time departures and 2.9% 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 76.9% for on time arrivals while the Virgin Australia network (Virgin Australia and Virgin Australia Regional Airlines combined operations) recorded 69.8%. Hinterland achieved the highest on time arrivals at 90.8%, followed by SmartLynx Australia at 89.7%, QantasLink at 78.4%, Jetstar at 75.1%, Qantas at 74.4%, Virgin Australia at 69.9%, Rex Airlines at 69.4% and Virgin Australia Regional Airlines at 60.9%.

The Qantas network recorded 78.1% for on time departures while the Virgin Australia network recorded 70.8%. Hinterland achieved the highest level of on time departures for August 2025 at 94.5%, followed by SmartLynx Australia at 92.9%, QantasLink at 78.5%, Qantas at 77.5%, Jetstar at 73.9%, Rex Airlines at 71.5%, Virgin Australia at 70.9% and Virgin Australia Regional Airlines at 58.3%.

Qantas recorded the highest percentage of cancellations at 3.3% during the month, followed by Rex Airlines and QantasLink, both at 3.0%, Virgin Australia Regional Airlines at 2.5%, Jetstar at 2.0%, SmartLynx Australia at 1.7%, Virgin Australia at 1.4% 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 August 2025, the Emerald-Brisbane route had the highest percentage of on time arrivals (93.9%) while the Brisbane-Mount Isa route had the highest percentage of on time departures (92.4%). The Kalgoorlie-Perth route had the lowest percentage of on time arrivals (55.6%) while the Proserpine-Brisbane route had the lowest percentage of on time departures (54.1%).

Cancellations were highest on the Port Lincoln-Adelaide route at 7.0%, followed by the Adelaide-Port Lincoln and Sydney-Melbourne routes at 6.2%, the Melbourne-Sydney route at 6.1%, the Melbourne-Devonport and Devonport-Melbourne routes at 5.3%, and the Perth-Kalgoorlie and Kalgoorlie-Perth routes at 4.6%.

Emerald Airport recorded the highest percentage of on time arrivals (90.5%) and the highest percentage of on time departures (88.4%). Port Macquarie Airport recorded the lowest percentage of on time arrivals (60.0%) while Proserpine Airport had the lowest percentage of on time departures (54.1%). These figures only refer to reported routes and do not cover all flights at these airports.

Table 1: Total Industry On Time performance for August 2025

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