Passenger traffic last recorded
Mar 2019
no passengers recorded in later published months
Perth to Christchurch
New Zealand · 193 months of data from Oct 1986
Years of data
16
Oct 1986 – Mar 2019
Busiest month
3,984
Mar 2018
Traffic: to Jun 2026
Passenger traffic between Perth and Christchurch was last recorded in Mar 2019, after 85,081 passengers had been recorded since 2003. At its busiest the route carried 3,984 passengers in a single month, in Mar 2018.
Passenger history milestones
Recorded milestones use this city-pair passenger series, with both directions combined. A first positive record is not a service-launch date; complete calendar years require all twelve observed, non-null months.
First positive passenger record
Oct 1986
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Peak complete year
1989
19,774 passengers
Latest complete year
2002
405 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Perth; the ring marks the distance to Christchurch.
Passengers, 1986 to 2019
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
To Mar 2019 · Marks show industry events
How full were the flights?
Inbound load factor. Every flight on this pair served no other city pair, so the seat count is unambiguous and these figures are exact. Seat data begins in 2009, so this series is shorter than the passenger chart above.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Load factor: seats data from 2009
Freight
Tonnes of air freight carried on this route — a dimension the domestic data does not have at all.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
To Mar 2019
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 3,984 · Mar 2018 |
| Data coverage | Oct 1986 – Mar 2019 (193 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Mar 2019 | 163 tonnes |
| Destination region | New Zealand |
No punctuality data is published for international services, so there are no cancellation or on-time figures on this page. That series covers domestic routes only.