Australia's most cancelled routes
Share of scheduled flights cancelled over the three months to Aug 2026, all airlines combined — recent enough to reflect how a route is running now, and still around a thousand flights per route. The national average over the same three months is 1.4%.
| # | Route | Cancelled | Trend | On time | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Orange ↔ Sydney | 5.7% | 74.5% | 436 | |
| 2 | Adelaide ↔ Port Lincoln | 4.0% | 82.6% | 1,504 | |
| 3 | Canberra ↔ Sydney | 3.8% | 81.6% | 3,409 | |
| 4 | Canberra ↔ Melbourne | 3.6% | 78.3% | 2,190 | |
| 5 | Port Macquarie ↔ Sydney | 3.5% | 74.4% | 1,031 | |
| 6 | Melbourne ↔ Sydney | 3.3% | 80.4% | 12,123 | |
| 7 | Melbourne ↔ Mildura | 2.8% | 74.1% | 1,025 | |
| 8 | Adelaide ↔ Canberra | 2.5% | 89.9% | 722 | |
| 9 | Launceston ↔ Melbourne | 2.3% | 65.2% | 1,676 | |
| 10 | Kalgoorlie ↔ Perth | 2.2% | 81.5% | 1,171 | |
| 11 | Brisbane ↔ Emerald | 2.0% | 89.2% | 847 | |
| 12 | Brisbane ↔ Rockhampton | 2.0% | 82.7% | 2,036 | |
| 13 | Adelaide ↔ Brisbane | 1.9% | 80.7% | 1,730 | |
| 14 | Devonport ↔ Melbourne | 1.8% | 78.8% | 226 | |
| 15 | Adelaide ↔ Sydney | 1.7% | 83.3% | 3,357 | |
| 16 | Brisbane ↔ Gladstone | 1.5% | 84.0% | 986 | |
| 17 | Dubbo ↔ Sydney | 1.5% | 75.8% | 1,270 | |
| 18 | Perth ↔ Port Hedland | 1.4% | 84.8% | 1,259 | |
| 19 | Brisbane ↔ Mackay | 1.2% | 82.0% | 1,966 | |
| 20 | Adelaide ↔ Melbourne | 1.1% | 83.1% | 3,746 | |
| 21 | Albury ↔ Sydney | 1.1% | 76.9% | 1,038 | |
| 22 | Brisbane ↔ Sydney | 1.0% | 78.7% | 6,860 | |
| 23 | Launceston ↔ Sydney | 0.9% | 74.3% | 526 | |
| 24 | Sydney ↔ Wagga Wagga | 0.9% | 75.7% | 1,129 | |
| 25 | Coffs Harbour ↔ Sydney | 0.9% | 74.5% | 1,162 | |
| 26 | Perth ↔ Sydney | 0.9% | 79.8% | 2,554 | |
| 27 | Brisbane ↔ Melbourne | 0.8% | 79.8% | 5,634 | |
| 28 | Melbourne ↔ Newcastle | 0.8% | 82.1% | 877 | |
| 29 | Hobart ↔ Sydney | 0.8% | 83.3% | 1,288 | |
| 30 | Brisbane ↔ Hobart | 0.8% | 84.3% | 525 | |
| 31 | Sunshine Coast ↔ Sydney | 0.7% | 76.9% | 1,354 | |
| 32 | Cairns ↔ Sydney | 0.7% | 77.7% | 1,519 | |
| 33 | Karratha ↔ Perth | 0.7% | 86.8% | 1,695 | |
| 34 | Brisbane ↔ Townsville | 0.7% | 82.1% | 2,134 | |
| 35 | Broome ↔ Perth | 0.7% | 84.1% | 1,000 | |
| 36 | Hobart ↔ Melbourne | 0.7% | 72.9% | 2,270 | |
| 37 | Gold Coast ↔ Melbourne | 0.7% | 72.7% | 2,751 | |
| 38 | Gold Coast ↔ Sydney | 0.6% | 78.2% | 4,023 | |
| 39 | Adelaide ↔ Perth | 0.6% | 90.5% | 1,232 | |
| 40 | Hamilton Island ↔ Sydney | 0.6% | 69.4% | 348 | |
| 41 | Ayers Rock ↔ Melbourne | 0.5% | 83.0% | 195 | |
| 42 | Adelaide ↔ Gold Coast | 0.5% | 74.3% | 426 | |
| 43 | Melbourne ↔ Perth | 0.4% | 82.7% | 3,083 | |
| 44 | Brisbane ↔ Perth | 0.4% | 82.4% | 1,875 | |
| 45 | Brisbane ↔ Canberra | 0.3% | 83.3% | 1,727 | |
| 46 | Ballina ↔ Sydney | 0.3% | 80.4% | 920 | |
| 47 | Brisbane ↔ Newcastle | 0.3% | 82.0% | 1,301 | |
| 48 | Melbourne ↔ Sunshine Coast | 0.2% | 71.0% | 1,076 | |
| 49 | Brisbane ↔ Cairns | 0.2% | 81.8% | 2,474 | |
| 50 | Darwin ↔ Melbourne | 0.2% | 75.2% | 639 | |
| 51 | Brisbane ↔ Darwin | 0.1% | 80.6% | 696 | |
| 52 | Newman ↔ Perth | 0.1% | 89.7% | 1,132 | |
| 53 | Cairns ↔ Melbourne | 0.1% | 70.4% | 1,206 | |
| 54 | Adelaide ↔ Alice Springs | 0.0% | 65.3% | 288 | |
| 55 | Brisbane ↔ Hamilton Island | 0.0% | 72.7% | 396 | |
| 56 | Brisbane ↔ Launceston | 0.0% | 74.0% | 204 | |
| 57 | Brisbane ↔ Mount Isa | 0.0% | 83.7% | 422 | |
| 58 | Brisbane ↔ Proserpine | 0.0% | 77.1% | 450 | |
| 59 | Canberra ↔ Gold Coast | 0.0% | 79.8% | 272 | |
| 60 | Darwin ↔ Perth | 0.0% | 83.6% | 408 |
3 months to Aug 2026
0 routes with fewer than 30 flights a month are excluded from this ranking. On those, a single cancellation moves the rate by several points, which makes the ordering meaningless rather than informative — their figures are still shown on each route's own page.