Sydney is comfortably the busiest airport in Australia and the wider Oceania, with 42.5 million passengers in 2025. This was the fourth-best year to date, only exceeded by 2017, 2018 and 2019. The lack of recovery was because of the domestic market, which remains notably smaller than before the COVID-19 pandemic.This was influenced by the […]
September 7, 2026 | Airports, Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, Top Story
Newcastle is the second-busiest airport in the Australian state of New South Wales. In the 2024-2025 financial year, the airport welcomed 1.18 million passengers, although that was not the highest volume to date. It achieved its best-year quarter in Q4 2025. This followed the opening of its expanded terminal in September 2025, which more than […]
April 7, 2026 | Airports, Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, Top Story
The market between Europe and Australia is enormous. In 2025, booking data suggests that 4.8 million two-way passengers, or 13,150 daily passengers, travelled between the two places. Unsurprisingly, nearly everyone – an estimated 95% – flew indirectly. In descending order, the top ten sixth freedom operators were Emirates, Qatar Airways, Singapore Airlines, Etihad Airways, Cathay […]
March 31, 2026 | Airlines, Asia Pacific, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
On 31 October, Qantas resumed flying from Adelaide to Auckland. The daily operation deploys the Boeing 737-800. Qantas previously served the city pair between 2004 and 2007. It marked the airline’s return to international operations from South Australia’s capital since Singapore flights ended in 2013. Qantas competes against Air New Zealand from Adelaide to Auckland […]
November 12, 2025 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, Top Story
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 […]
September 24, 2025 | Airlines, Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, Top Story
Adelaide Airport has recorded its highest-ever passenger traffic for the 2024 financial year, welcoming more than 8.5 million travellers through the terminal. This milestone marks a 10% increase over FY23 and exceeds pre-pandemic volumes from FY19 by over 10,000 passengers. Momentum has carried into the current financial year, with year-to-date growth (as of March 2025) […]
June 16, 2025 | Air Service Event News, Asia Pacific
Cirium shows that Queensland has more than 60 airports with scheduled services. Located in the tropical Far North, Cairns welcomed 4.09 million passengers in 2024. The start of Indonesia AirAsia flights in August 2024 helped, as did the return of Cathay Pacific in December 2024 and China Eastern’s operation for the Chinese New Year in […]
April 14, 2025 | Airlines, News & Analysis, Top Story
Darwin is in the Northern Territory and is the least populated Australian state capital. The NT has an area of 1.35 million km2, nearly twice the size of Texas and equivalent to the combined area of the UK, France and Spain. Despite this, its population is only around a quarter of a million people, more […]
March 24, 2025 | Airports, News & Analysis, Top Story
Perth had a record 16.9 million passengers in 2024, smashing its prior high, held in 2023, by 10%+. It gained an additional 1.6 million passengers in one year, of which more than half were from the international market. Total traffic was almost 14% above Perth’s pre-COVID level in 2019, making the Western Australian capital one […]
March 10, 2025 | Airlines, Airports, Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, Top Story
Gold Coast Airport is highly unusual because it is in two states: Queensland and New South Wales. Even more strangely, both states have different time zones, although the airport uses Queensland time. The airport welcomed 5.6 million passengers in 2023 and 6.2 million in 2024. It ended last year with throughput up by 12% compared […]
February 17, 2025 | Airlines, News & Analysis, Top Story
Adelaide is the capital of South Australia. With 7.12 million passengers last year, it is the country’s fifth-busiest airport. The return of Fiji Airways in 2022 (which last served Adelaide in 2019) and VietJet in 2023 helped the recovery. Emirates will also assist when its daily Dubai service resumes on 28 October having last been […]
September 11, 2024 | Airports, News & Analysis, Top Story
Qantas inaugurated flights between Perth and Paris CDG on Friday 12 July, marking its return to the French capital after 20 years. The 14,240-kilometre service will initially be maintained 4-weekly with the 787-9 aircraft, departing Perth on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays, decreasing to 3-weekly after the Olympic Games from 18 August. The Flying Kangaroo […]
July 30, 2024 | Latest Route News +