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Australia’s domestic passenger numbers fell for second straight month in March
June 2nd 2025
Airlines in Australia flew 4.8 million passengers on domestic flights in March, a decline of 4.6% from the 5 million air travellers they carried in the same month in 2024. Read More » The March figures represented a second consecutive monthly year-on-year decline in domestic passenger numbers. The number of available seats in the domestic market fell 6% in March, Australia’s Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics (BITRE) said. Passenger load factor rose 0.3 of a percentage point to 80.7%, the ninth consecutive month the domestic passenger load factor has exceeded 80%. Passengers carried on Australia’s busiest domestic route - Melbourne-Sydney - rose 1.9% to 723,000 air travellers, BITRE said. In March, parts of eastern Australia were battered by Tropical Cyclone Alfred, which led to the closure of Gold Coast Airport, and others, for several days at the start of the month. As a consequence, domestic passenger traffic on the popular Melbourne-Gold Coast and Sydney-Gold Coast routes fell 29.2% and 24.9%, respectively.
