Australian Flight Data

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.

Passenger movements
66,751
Jul 2013
International share
0%
0 movements
Aircraft movements
618
landings and take-offs
vs 2019
of pre-pandemic average

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

033,37666,751Skywest becomes Virgin Australia Regional Airlines — May 2013 Jul 2012Jan 2013Jul 2013
033,78367,565Volcanic ash cloud disrupts southern Australia — Jun 2011 Qantas grounds its entire fleet — Oct 2011 Skywest becomes Virgin Australia Regional Airlines — May 2013 Jul 2008Jan 2011Jul 2013
033,78367,565Jetstar launches — May 2004 OzJet's all-business experiment ends within months — Jan 2006 Tiger Airways Australia enters the market — Apr 2008 Volcanic ash cloud disrupts southern Australia — Jun 2011 Qantas grounds its entire fleet — Oct 2011 Skywest becomes Virgin Australia Regional Airlines — May 2013 Jul 2003Jul 2008Jul 2013
044,19988,398The pilots' dispute grounds domestic aviation — Aug 1989 Domestic deregulation ends the Two Airline Policy — Oct 1990 Virgin Blue launches — Aug 2000 Ansett Australia collapses — Sep 2001 Jetstar launches — May 2004 OzJet's all-business experiment ends within months — Jan 2006 Tiger Airways Australia enters the market — Apr 2008 Volcanic ash cloud disrupts southern Australia — Jun 2011 Qantas grounds its entire fleet — Oct 2011 Skywest becomes Virgin Australia Regional Airlines — May 2013 Jan 1985Apr 1999Jul 2013

To Jul 2013 · Marks show industry events

Aircraft movements

0309618Skywest becomes Virgin Australia Regional Airlines — May 2013 Jul 2012Jan 2013Jul 2013
0309618Volcanic ash cloud disrupts southern Australia — Jun 2011 Qantas grounds its entire fleet — Oct 2011 Skywest becomes Virgin Australia Regional Airlines — May 2013 Jul 2008Jan 2011Jul 2013
0368735Jetstar launches — May 2004 OzJet's all-business experiment ends within months — Jan 2006 Tiger Airways Australia enters the market — Apr 2008 Volcanic ash cloud disrupts southern Australia — Jun 2011 Qantas grounds its entire fleet — Oct 2011 Skywest becomes Virgin Australia Regional Airlines — May 2013 Jul 2003Jul 2008Jul 2013
06121,224The pilots' dispute grounds domestic aviation — Aug 1989 Domestic deregulation ends the Two Airline Policy — Oct 1990 Virgin Blue launches — Aug 2000 Ansett Australia collapses — Sep 2001 Jetstar launches — May 2004 OzJet's all-business experiment ends within months — Jan 2006 Tiger Airways Australia enters the market — Apr 2008 Volcanic ash cloud disrupts southern Australia — Jun 2011 Qantas grounds its entire fleet — Oct 2011 Skywest becomes Virgin Australia Regional Airlines — May 2013 Jan 1985Apr 1999Jul 2013

To Jul 2013

Busiest routes from Alice Springs

RoutePassengersMonth
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%.

RouteCancelledOn timeFlights
Alice Springs ↔ Adelaide 0.9% 71.8% 1,138

Punctuality: 12 months to Jul 2026

Alice Springs in numbers

Busiest month on record88,398 · Oct 1994
National ranking, 2025 25th busiest
Busiest year on record 933,049 · 1994
Data coverageJan 1985 – Jul 2013 (343 months)
Domestic share, Jul 2013100.0%