Alice Springs Airport
ASP · 4 monitored domestic routes · data from Jan 1985
Reporting for Alice Springs stopped in Jul 2013, when it dropped out of the top twenty airports. Everything below is historical.
Airport traffic: to Jul 2013
Alice Springs handled 66,751 passenger movements in Jul 2013, the 16th busiest of the 22 monitored airports. Across its 1 monitored routes, 0.9% of flights were cancelled — well below the national average.
A passenger movement is not the same as a passenger. Every domestic passenger is counted twice — once departing, once arriving — while an international passenger is counted once. That is the official definition, and it is why these totals cannot be added to the route figures elsewhere on this site.
Passenger movements, 1985 to 2013
To Jul 2013 · Marks show industry events
Aircraft movements
To Jul 2013
Busiest routes from Alice Springs
| Route | Passengers | Month |
|---|---|---|
| Alice Springs ↔ Sydney | 13,251 | Jul 2014 |
| Alice Springs ↔ Melbourne | 12,689 | Jul 2014 |
| Alice Springs ↔ Adelaide | 9,637 | Jun 2026 |
| Alice Springs ↔ Darwin | 4,726 | Jan 2020 |
Route passengers are a different measure from airport movements above — one trip, not two.
Punctuality on Alice Springs routes
Across all 1 monitored routes touching this airport, 0.9% of scheduled flights were cancelled over the 12 months to Jul 2026 — against a national average of 2.1%.
| Route | Cancelled | On time | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alice Springs ↔ Adelaide | 0.9% | 71.8% | 1,138 |
Punctuality: 12 months to Jul 2026
Alice Springs in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 88,398 · Oct 1994 |
| National ranking, 2025 | 25th busiest |
| Busiest year on record | 933,049 · 1994 |
| Data coverage | Jan 1985 – Jul 2013 (343 months) |
| Domestic share, Jul 2013 | 100.0% |