Airservices Australia has released its Australian Aviation Network Overview report for April 2025.
Highlights include:
- In April, the Australian aviation network experienced a 6 per cent increase in daily average flights from the previous month, reflecting seasonal fluctuations, and maintained consistent traffic levels with last year. International traffic saw an increase of 6 per cent compared to April 2024. This indicates Australia’s growing appeal for tourism and trade in the current global landscape.
- Notably, 17 April 2025 marked the busiest day for passenger flights in the last five years. Two of the four busiest Australian airports that drive the network performance have exceeded 2019 traffic levels, with airlines reporting unprecedented load factors as demand continues to grow.
- The industry has also achieved two consecutive months of highest on-time performance in three years, despite disruptions from ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred. This progress underscores the collective focus on key network performance factors, including weather disruption management, engineering and operational spares, staffing and aircraft availability. Compliance with Ground Delay Programs (GDP) has reached the highest levels across all airports in recent months, enhancing network predictability.
- Our service performance continues to improve, with no airspace service variations over the Easter and Anzac Day holiday period. This is the result of embedding layers of resilience measures to protect peak travel demand periods. The application of GDP has remained minimal, only when demand remained high while airborne delays were kept at steady low levels. We are progressing our largest recruitment program in Airservices history, having endorsed 21 additional controllers in Quarter 1, following 52 last year. Ensuring high-standard services to foster regional aviation remains a key focus, and we are exploring all necessary measures to enhance recruitment, resource deployment and training processes.
About Airservices
Airservices Australia is a government-owned organisation responsible for safely and efficiently managing air traffic in 11 per cent of the world’s airspace, as well as the provision of aviation rescue fire fighting services at Australia’s busiest airports. We are regulated by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority and work closely with our customers and industry to support the long-term growth of the aviation industry.
