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Australia’s domestic passenger traffic continues to climb post pandemic
April 7th 2025
Airlines in Australia flew 5.1 million passengers on scheduled domestic flights in January, up 6.3% from the 4.8 million in-country air travellers transported in the same month in 2024. Read More » January was the fifth consecutive month Australia has recorded more than five million domestic passengers. Capacity measured by available seats declined 2.2% in the month, Australia’s Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics (BITRE) said. With passengers increasing and capacity shrinking, load factor improved seven percentage points to 84.1%. It was the seventh straight month domestic passenger load factor was above 80%. Australia’s busiest domestic route - Melbourne-Sydney - was higher by 3.2%, at 671,100 passengers flown in the reported 31 days.
