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Summary—April 2026

For April 2026, on time performance over all routes operated by participating airlines (Hinterland, Jetstar, Qantas, QantasLink, Rex Airlines, Skytrans Australia (formerly SmartLynx Australia), Virgin Australia and Virgin Australia Regional Airlines) averaged 82.9% for on time arrivals and 82.6% for on time departures. The cancellation rate for the month was 1.9%. The equivalent figures for April 2025 were 82.4% for on time arrivals, 82.2% for on time departures and 2.0% for cancellations.

This month’s on time arrivals figure was higher than the long term average (average over the period of OTP reporting starting in November 2003) performance for all routes (80.5%) and the on time departures figure was also higher than the long term average (81.6%). The rate of cancellations was lower than the long term average of 2.2%.

On time arrivals

The Qantas network (Qantas and QantasLink combined operations) recorded 85.8% for on time arrivals while the Virgin Australia network (Virgin Australia and Virgin Australia Regional Airlines combined operations) recorded 83.4%. Hinterland achieved the highest on time arrivals at 92.1%, followed by QantasLink at 86.4%, Qantas at 84.7%, Virgin Australia at 83.5%, Jetstar at 78.3%, Rex Airlines at 74.6%, Skytrans Australia at 73.1% and Virgin Australia Regional Airlines at 71.2%.

On time departures

The Qantas network recorded 85.8% for on time departures while the Virgin Australia network recorded 83.4%. Hinterland achieved the highest level of on time departures for April 2026 at 95.7%, followed by Qantas at 87.0%, QantasLink at 85.2%, Virgin Australia at 83.6%, Skytrans Australia at 78.6%, Rex Airlines at 76.7%, Jetstar at 75.0% and Virgin Australia Regional Airlines at 69.9%.

Cancellations

Rex Airlines recorded the highest percentage of cancellations at 3.8% during the month. The second highest cancellation rate was from QantasLink at 2.4%, Skytrans Australia at 2.2%, Jetstar at 2.0%, Qantas at 1.9%, Virgin Australia Regional Airlines at 1.4%, Virgin Australia at 0.8% and Hinterland at 0.6%.

Routes

Airlines’ on time performance varies across the routes they serve. Individual route data by specific airline for 59 routes (118 sectors when counting both directions of flights) are shown on pages 10-21.

Of the 59 routes which met the criteria1 for on time performance reporting in April 2026, the Brisbane-Mount Isa sector had the highest percentage of on time arrivals (95.6%) and the highest percentage of on time departures (95.6%). The Hamilton Island-Sydney sector had the lowest percentage of on time arrivals (68.3%) and the lowest percentage of on time departures (65.1%).

Cancellations were highest on the Sydney-Dubbo sector at 11.4%, followed by the Dubbo-Sydney sector at 9.4%, the Adelaide-Port Lincoln sector at 6.1%, the Port Lincoln-Adelaide sector at 5.8%, the Port Macquarie-Sydney sector at 4.9%, the Sydney-Port Macquarie sector at 4.7%, the Sydney-Melbourne sector at 4.6%, and the Canberra-Sydney sector at 4.4%.

For the month of April 2026 there were 31 out of the 118 route sectors (from the 59 routes) that had zero cancellations: Adelaide-Alice Springs, Adelaide-Canberra, Adelaide-Gold Coast, Alice Springs-Adelaide, Ayers Rock-Melbourne, Brisbane-Cairns, Brisbane-Darwin, Brisbane-Hamilton Island, Brisbane-Hobart, Brisbane-Launceston, Brisbane-Mount Isa, Brisbane-Proserpine, Broome-Perth, Cairns-Brisbane, Canberra-Adelaide, Canberra-Gold Coast, Darwin-Melbourne, Darwin-Perth, Gold Coast-Adelaide, Gold Coast-Canberra, Hamilton Island-Brisbane, Hamilton Island-Sydney, Hobart-Brisbane, Launceston-Brisbane, Melbourne-Ayers Rock, Melbourne-Darwin, Melbourne-Sunshine Coast, Perth-Brisbane, Perth-Broome, Perth-Darwin, Sydney-Hamilton Island.

Airports

Mount Isa Airport recorded the highest percentage of on time arrivals (95.6%) and the highest percentage of on time departures (94.1%). Port Lincoln Airport recorded the lowest percentage of on time arrivals (72.9%) while Launceston Airport had the lowest percentage of on time departures (71.5%). These figures only refer to reported routes and do not cover all flights at these airports.

Table 1: Total Industry On Time performance for April 2026

Figure 1: Total Industry On Time performance by month from April 2023