Australian Airlines

Qantas Group · former international services · records from Oct 2002

Australian Airlines no longer appears in the current figures. Its last recorded passengers were in Jun 2006. Everything below is history.

Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026

International passengers over time

International traffic to Jun 2026

International history milestones

Passenger milestones use complete calendar years only; a missing month stays missing and the partial current year cannot set the historical peak. Current breadth uses the global passenger window 2025-07 to 2026-06. Recorded destinations are passenger-record entities, not necessarily nonstop current services.

Routes it no longer flies

• Cairns ↔ Nagoya — 999 flights, Sep 2003 to Jun 2006
• Cairns ↔ Osaka — 950 flights, Sep 2003 to Jun 2006
• Gold Coast ↔ Osaka — 866 flights, Sep 2003 to Jun 2006
• Cairns ↔ Singapore — 588 flights, Sep 2003 to Jun 2006
• Sydney ↔ Nagoya — 581 flights, Sep 2003 to Jun 2006
• Sydney ↔ Denpasar — 496 flights, Sep 2003 to Jun 2006
• Cairns ↔ Hong Kong — 374 flights, Sep 2003 to Jun 2006
• Sydney ↔ Singapore — 349 flights, Sep 2003 to Jun 2006
• Cairns ↔ Fukuoka — 341 flights, Sep 2003 to Jun 2006
• Melbourne ↔ Denpasar — 233 flights, Sep 2003 to Jun 2006
• Darwin ↔ Singapore — 180 flights, Jun 2004 to Jun 2006
• Perth ↔ Denpasar — 158 flights, Dec 2004 to Jun 2006
• Sydney ↔ Kota Kinabalu — 112 flights, Sep 2003 to Mar 2005
• Cairns ↔ Sapporo — 104 flights, Dec 2004 to Mar 2006
• Melbourne ↔ Singapore — 80 flights, Dec 2004 to Jun 2006
• Cairns ↔ Kota Kinabalu — 41 flights, Sep 2003 to Mar 2004
• Sydney ↔ Phuket — 36 flights, Dec 2005 to Jan 2006
• Gold Coast ↔ Fukuoka — 22 flights, Sep 2003 to Jun 2006
• Cairns ↔ Tokyo — 2 flights, Feb 2006 to Mar 2006
• Brisbane ↔ Osaka — 1 flights, Jun 2005 to Jun 2005

Showing the 20 busiest of 21.

Destinations it no longer serves

Carried passengers at some point since 1985, none in the 12 months to Jun 2026.

• Japan — 1,188,751 passengers, Oct 2002 to Jun 2006
• Indonesia — 297,395 passengers, Jun 2003 to Jun 2006
• Singapore — 289,983 passengers, Nov 2002 to Jun 2006
• Hong Kong (SAR) — 174,220 passengers, Nov 2002 to Jun 2006
• Malaysia — 51,532 passengers, Jun 2003 to Apr 2005
• Taiwan — 16,550 passengers, Nov 2002 to May 2003
• Thailand — 5,734 passengers, Dec 2005 to Jan 2006

Punctuality is not published for international flights, so there is no on-time or cancellation figure here for Australian Airlines's services to and from Australia — only for domestic flights, and only where an airline operates them.

Others in Qantas Group

Reported separately in the source data, and they do not perform alike — which is why this site keeps them apart.

• Australia Asia Airlines
• Qantas · 1.8% cancelled
• QantasLink · 3.0% cancelled