Qantas has 2,700+ weekly one-way flights in October, with 178 routes

According to Cirium schedule information, Qantas (including QantasLink) has 2,723 one-way weekly flights in October 2025. Its offering has risen by nearly 2% year-on-year and by almost 3% compared to before the pandemic in October 2019. It now has 144 seats per flight.

Planespotters.net shows that Qantas’s fleet consists of 128 mainline aircraft. It has 76 737-800s, 16 A330-200s, 14 787-9s, 10 A330-300s, 10 A380s, and two A321XLRs. The first of its XLRs was delivered in June 2025.

QantasLink has a further 109 aircraft. It has 38 Dash 8-Q400s, 26 E190s, 14 Fokker 100s, 15 A320s, nine A319s and seven A220-300s. The last of its Dash 8-300s, which were operated by Eastern Australia Airlines, were retired in August 2025.

Sydney has 41% of Qantas’s October flights

Cirium indicates that Qantas’ October network consists of 101 airports. Some 67 are in Australia (including Norfolk Island), 11 are in Asia (including East Timor), eight are in Oceania, six are in North America, four are in New Zealand, three are in Europe and one is in both Africa and South America. Compared to the same month in 2024, only Seoul ICN has exited its map, while no airport has joined its network.

With 1,105 weekly one-way flights from Sydney, the New South Wales airport is, of course, Qantas’s top airport. It has nearly double the departures from Australia’s busiest airport than the second-largest carrier, Virgin Australia (582). Sydney accounts for 41% of Qantas’ flights, which rises to half for its international services and 58% for its long-haul operations.

It has 60 routes from Sydney, of which 41 are served at least daily. While no route has been introduced compared to October 2024, the oneworld member has ceased flying to Port Moresby (flights ended in January 2025) and Seoul ICN (May 2025).

Qantas has 178 routes in October

Cirium indicates that Qantas’s October network comprises 120 domestic and 58 international routes. Obviously, its top routes revolve around domestic services between Australia’s largest cities and state capitals.

Little change is perhaps expected to its most-served routes lists. Nonetheless, in the past year, Brisbane-Rockhampton has dropped out of the top ten, with Brisbane-Cairns replacing it. While ‘Rocky’s’ flights are unchanged, those to Cairns have grown from 38 to 51-weekly, which is mainly driven by the E190 now operating most of the services.

With 219-weekly one-way flights, Sydney-Melbourne has nearly twice as many departures as Qantas’s second most-served market. The 737-800, A321XLR (for crew training and familiarisation reasons), A330-200, A220-300, 787-9 and A330-300 are used. Qantas has 43% of the market, followed by Virgin with 34% and Jetstar (Qantas’s lower-cost unit) with 23%.