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Summary—June 2025

For June 2025, on time performance over all routes operated by participating airlines (Hinterland, Jetstar, Qantas, QantasLink, Rex Airlines, Skytrans, Virgin Australia and Virgin Australia Regional Airlines) averaged 79.0 per cent for on time arrivals and 79.6 per cent for on time departures. The cancellation rate for the month was 2.4 per cent. The equivalent figures for June 2024 were 76.8 per cent for on time arrivals, 77.8 per cent for on time departures and 2.5 per cent for cancellations. 

This month’s on time arrivals figure was lower than the long term average performance for all routes (80.7 per cent) and the on time departures figure was also lower than the long term average (81.8 per cent). The rate of cancellations was higher than the long term average of 2.2 per cent.

The Qantas network (Qantas and QantasLink combined operations) recorded 80.4 per cent for on time arrivals while the Virgin Australia network (Virgin Australia and Virgin Australia Regional Airlines combined operations) recorded 78.0 per cent. Hinterland achieved the highest on time arrivals at 88.1 per cent, followed by Qantas at 83.2 per cent, Skytrans at 80.5 per cent, Jetstar at 79.6 per cent, QantasLink at 78.7 per cent, Virgin Australia at 78.1 per cent, Virgin Australia Regional Airlines at 73.6 per cent and Rex Airlines at 70.9 per cent. 

The Qantas network recorded 81.2 per cent for on time departures while the Virgin Australia network recorded 78.7 per cent. Hinterland achieved the highest level of on time departures for June 2025 at 92.4 per cent, followed by Qantas at 85.0 per cent, Skytrans at 81.4 per cent, Virgin Australia at 78.8 per cent, QantasLink at 78.7 per cent, Jetstar at 78.1 per cent, Rex Airlines at 73.2 per cent and Virgin Australia Regional Airlines at 68.1 per cent.

QantasLink recorded the highest percentage of cancellations at 3.9 per cent during the month, followed by Skytrans and Qantas at 2.8 per cent, Rex Airlines at 2.3 per cent, Virgin Australia at 1.7 per cent, Jetstar at 1.1 per cent, Hinterland at 0.4 per cent and Virgin Australia Regional Airlines at 0.0 per cent.

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 June 2025, the Emerald-Brisbane route had the highest percentage of on time arrivals (93.8 per cent) while the Melbourne-Ayers Rock route had the highest percentage of on time departures (93.5 per cent). The Broome-Perth route had the lowest percentage of on time arrivals (57.7 per cent) while the Gold Coast-Adelaide route had the lowest percentage of on time departures (53.3 per cent). 

Cancellations were highest on the Canberra-Sydney route at 11.9 per cent, followed by the Sydney-Canberra route at 11.7 per cent, the Devonport-Melbourne route at 6.9 per cent, the Melbourne-Devonport route at 6.8 per cent, and the Port Lincoln-Adelaide and Adelaide-Port Lincoln routes at 5.8 per cent.

Emerald Airport recorded the highest percentage of on time arrivals (89.1 per cent) and the highest percentage of on time departures (90.4 per cent). Proserpine Airport recorded the lowest percentage of on time arrivals (61.7 per cent) and the lowest percentage of on time departures (59.3 per cent). These figures only refer to reported routes and do not cover all flights at these airports.

Table 1: Total Industry On Time performance for June 2025

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