Australian Flight Data

Australian airports

74 airports, from Sydney to Lord Howe Island.

Monthly figures

Passenger and aircraft movements are reported every month for Australia's busiest airports, along with route-level punctuality. Figures below are for Apr 2026.

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Airport Code Movements International vs 2019 Routes
Sydney SYD 3,517,115 39% 96.5% 26
Melbourne MEL 2,997,205 32% 99.3% 20
Brisbane BNE 2,038,470 27% 100.1% 20
Perth PER 1,245,752 36% 117.8% 11
Adelaide ADL 758,708 13% 102.9% 11
Gold Coast OOL 571,139 13% 100.4% 6
Cairns CNS 379,335 14% 86.6% 6
Hobart HBA 237,189 0% 115.1% 4
Canberra CBR 218,726 1% 79.9% 5
Sunshine Coast MCY 160,794 5% 137.2% 2
Darwin DRW 156,102 15% 81% 6
Townsville TSV 139,868 0% 94.7% 4
Launceston LST 124,911 0% 116.3% 3
Newcastle NTL 109,411 7% 101.2% 3
Mackay MKY 76,773 0% 101.9% 1
Karratha KTA 63,828 0% 150.9% 1
Rockhampton ROK 53,343 0% 104.2% 1
Proserpine PPP 50,003 0% 128.1% 2
Ballina QNA 49,947 0% 113.3% 2
Hamilton Island HTI 39,849 0% 97.7% 3

Airport traffic: Apr 2026

A passenger movement is not a passenger. Domestic travellers are counted twice — once departing, once arriving — international travellers once. That is why these totals are larger than the route figures elsewhere on this site, and why the two cannot be added together.

Yearly figures

54 more airports are reported once a year rather than every month. Totals below are for 2025; each page goes back to 1985.

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Airport Code Movements Rank vs 2019
Port Hedland PHE 492,292 21 124.3%
Newman ZNE 443,922 23 127.3%
Kalgoorlie KGI 397,089 24 137.1%
Ayers Rock AYQ 352,580 26 72%
Coffs Harbour CFS 261,945 27 66.2%
Paraburdoo PBO 249,699 28 130.8%
Mount Isa ISA 232,393 29 105.5%
Albury ABX 223,358 30 88.5%
Wagga Wagga WGA 221,069 31 106.6%
Hervey Bay HVB 218,834 32 131.2%
Gladstone GLT 218,206 33 88%
Port Macquarie PQQ 192,863 34 88.3%
Dubbo DBO 192,221 35 96.9%
Emerald EMD 189,805 36 94.2%
Mildura MQL 187,595 37 77.8%
Port Lincoln PLO 167,322 38 97.1%
Tamworth TMW 159,014 39 84.2%
Devonport DPO 148,650 40 100.2%
Bundaberg BDB 139,773 41 91%
Geraldton GET 129,372 42 121.3%
Thursday Island HID 116,962 43 120.6%
Learmonth LEA 110,498 44 130.5%
Armidale ARM 103,554 45 78.1%
Kununurra KNX 103,338 46 129.3%
Olympic Dam OLP 103,265 47 136.1%
Orange OAG 102,639 48 124.6%
Moranbah MOV 100,435 49 91.5%
Weipa WEI 99,840 50 138.3%
Busselton BQB 97,888 51 —
Burnie BWT 77,719 52 107.2%
Griffith GFF 73,892 53 96.3%
Mount Gambier MGB 72,895 54 85.4%
Norfolk Island NLK 71,045 55 115.5%
Gove GOV 68,997 56 118.8%
Albany ALH 65,989 57 106%
Merimbula MIM 61,866 58 102.6%
Broken Hill BHQ 61,024 59 100.1%
Esperance EPR 56,256 60 109.6%
Roma RMA 54,804 61 63.6%
Groote Eylandt GTE 49,662 — 187.7%
Whyalla WYA 45,755 — 58.1%
King Island KNS 42,950 — 93.5%
Longreach LRE 40,904 — 120.4%
McArthur River MCV 39,439 — 120.2%
Moree MRZ 34,334 — 108.9%
Onslow ONS 34,205 — —
Toowoomba Wellcamp WTB 33,968 — 30.8%
Kingscote KGC 33,443 — 77.7%
Lord Howe Island LDH 30,623 — 91.5%
Palm Island PMK 27,305 — 94.7%
Cloncurry CNJ 26,773 — 112.5%
Carnarvon CVQ 25,823 — 115.8%
Bamaga ABM 22,352 — 107.3%
Cooktown CTN 20,164 — 141.4%

Airport traffic: 2025

For what has happened to this part of the network since 1985, see regional aviation over forty years.

No longer reported

The published series tracks the top twenty airports by recent traffic, so membership changes. These dropped off the list and their series ends there — the airports themselves did not close.

AirportCodeData endsMonths
Alice Springs ASP Jul 2013 343
Broome BME Jul 2013 343