Australia and UK

2 cities · 3 city pairs with recent passenger traffic · 4 in the lost-route record · 9 with no post-2003 passenger record · data from Jan 1985

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.

Cities in UK

• London
• Manchester

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

• Virgin Atlantic Airways — 598,548 passengers, Jun 1995 to May 2014

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.

• Darwin ↔ London — passenger traffic last recorded Jun 2022
• Sydney ↔ Manchester — passenger traffic last recorded May 2009
• Brisbane ↔ London — passenger traffic last recorded Apr 2012
• Adelaide ↔ London — passenger traffic last recorded Mar 2005

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.

• Cairns ↔ London
• Perth ↔ Manchester
• Melbourne ↔ Manchester
• Brisbane ↔ Manchester
• Cairns ↔ Manchester
• Adelaide ↔ Manchester
• Darwin ↔ Manchester
• Townsville ↔ Manchester
• Townsville ↔ London