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Summary—December 2025

For December 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 73.8% for on time arrivals and 74.5% for on time departures. The cancellation rate for the month was 1.9%. The equivalent figures for December 2024 were 74.7% for on time arrivals, 74.0% 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 (80.5%) 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%.

The Qantas network (Qantas and QantasLink combined operations) recorded 76.2% for on time arrivals while the Virgin Australia network (Virgin Australia and Virgin Australia Regional Airlines combined operations) recorded 73.4%. Hinterland achieved the highest on time arrivals at 85.3%, followed by QantasLink at 76.8%, Qantas at 75.2%, Virgin Australia at 73.5%, Rex Airlines at 72.4%, SmartLynx Australia at 69.0%, Jetstar at 68.3% and Virgin Australia Regional Airlines at 58.0%.

The Qantas network recorded 77.3% for on time departures while the Virgin Australia network recorded 74.3%. Hinterland achieved the highest level of on time departures for December 2025 at 89.8%, followed by Qantas at 78.5%, QantasLink at 76.6%, Rex Airlines at 75.6%, Virgin Australia at 74.5%, SmartLynx Australia at 69.0%, Jetstar at 66.2% and Virgin Australia Regional Airlines at 57.3%.

QantasLink recorded the highest percentage of cancellations at 3.0% during the month, followed by Rex Airlines at 2.3%, Jetstar at 1.9%, SmartLynx Australia at 1.8%, Hinterland at 1.7%, Qantas at 1.4%, Virgin Australia at 0.9% and Virgin Australia Regional Airlines 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 December 2025, the Adelaide-Gold Coast route had the highest percentage of on time arrivals (88.5%) while the Perth-Darwin route had the highest percentage of on time departures (91.2%). The Hamilton Island-Sydney route had the lowest percentage of on time arrivals (50.7%) and the lowest percentage of on time departures (50.7%).

Cancellations were highest on the Brisbane-Gladstone and Gladstone-Brisbane routes, both at 5.8%, followed by the Sydney-Dubbo route at 5.4%, the Dubbo-Sydney route at 5.3%, the Coffs Harbour-Sydney route at 5.2%, the Sydney-Coffs Harbour route at 4.8% and the Canberra-Sydney route at 4.6%.

Karratha Airport recorded the highest percentage of on time arrivals (88.1%), while Emerald Airport had the highest percentage of on time departures (89.1%). Launceston Airport recorded the lowest percentage of on time arrivals (61.6%) while Hamilton Island Airport had the lowest percentage of on time departures (63.3%). These figures only refer to reported routes and do not cover all flights at these airports.

Table 1: Total Industry On Time performance for December 2025

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