Australia and Cook Islands

1 city pair with recent passenger traffic · 1 in the lost-route record · data from Aug 1986

Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026

Passengers over time

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 Australian ports describe passenger records, not necessarily nonstop current services.

Airlines flying this route

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12 months to Jun 2026

Shares are of passengers carried, not of seats or flights, and they cover every Australian airport. Airlines are reported against destinations rather than city pairs, so these figures cannot be broken down further by city.

Airlines that used to fly here

Carried passengers between Australia and Cook Islands at some point since 1985, none in the 12 months to Jun 2026.

• Air New Zealand — 181,385 passengers, Apr 2005 to Mar 2020
• Cook Islands International — 14,457 passengers, Aug 1986 to Apr 1990
• Polynesian Airlines — 8,716 passengers, May 1990 to May 1993

Recent passenger traffic

Positive passenger traffic appears within the latest year of the published BITRE series. This is record recency, not real-time operating status.

Routes Australia has lost

No passenger traffic recorded in the comparable published series for over a year. See the lost-route record for the full methodology.

• Melbourne ↔ Rarotonga — passenger traffic last recorded Oct 2009