Airservices Australia has released its Australian Aviation Network Overview report for July 2024.
Highlights include:
- July 2024 was a really challenging month for the Australian aviation industry due largely to disruptions from adverse weather, CrowdStrike outage and Rex’s suspension of Boeing 737 services.
- Against this backdrop, the Australian aviation network still recorded 4 per cent growth from the previous month in terms of daily average flights, driven by the school holiday period and Paris Olympic Games.
- The recent improvement of industry on-time performance reversed in June 2024, mainly impacted by adverse weather. Coordinated cross-industry measures to better prepare and respond to these events are being progressed, including joint development of what-if scenarios and alternative demand/capacity balancing plans. These measures will strengthen network reliability and deliver a more consistent experience for the travelling public.
- July 2024 recorded the lowest level of Airservices attributable ground delays since reporting on this metric commenced in January 2023. Notwithstanding our efforts to limit the impact of our capacity constraints, the consistency of our performance still needs to improve. Increasing operational resourcing and improving flexible workforce deployment remains our top priority to eliminate air traffic management (ATM) attribution to delay and improve the operations of the network as a whole.
About Airservices
Airservices Australia is the Federal Government-owned organisation responsible for the safety of 11 per cent of the world’s airspace and the provision of aviation rescue fire fighting services at Australia’s busiest airports. We work closely with our customers and industry to support the long-term growth of the aviation industry and are investing in technologies to position Australia at the forefront of innovation in the global aviation industry.
