Australia and Tonga

1 city pair with recent passenger traffic · 1 with no post-2003 passenger record · data from Sep 1990

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

• Virgin Australia — 333,222 passengers, Oct 2005 to Mar 2020
• Polynesian Airlines — 39,862 passengers, Sep 1990 to Dec 2003
• Royal Tongan Airlines — 20,628 passengers, Oct 1993 to Jun 2003
• Virgin Samoa — 8,966 passengers, Jan 2004 to Jul 2005

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.

No post-2003 passenger record

These retained city pairs have no positive passenger record in the comparable series from January 2003 onward. Some have freight or mail records, and some appear only in the earlier passenger series.

• Melbourne ↔ Tongatapu