DOMESTIC SKIES: Air Capacity in Australia

This year marks the return of our popular country by country air capacity statistics series. Every week The HUB provides statistics highlighting airline and airport activity in an individual domestic and international market. We take a look at last year’s schedule as a snapshot and compare seat capacity with the previous year, showing which airlines and airports are growing and which are constraining.

The data is all supplied by OAG Aviation using its OAG Schedules Analyser tool.

DOMESTIC SKIES: SCHEDULED AIR CAPACITY IN AUSTRALIA (non-stop departures; 2013)

Rank

Airline

Available Seats

% Share

% Change v 2012

1

Qantas Airways (QF)

23,735,365

30.0 %

2.3 %

2

Virgin Australia Airlines (DJ)

20,993,126

26.6 %

(-2.4) %

3

Jetstar Airways (JQ)

15,152,041

19.2 %

12.6 %

4

Tigerair Australia (TT)

3,688,920

4.7 %

47.5 %

5

Sunstate Airlines (SSQ)

3,197,192

4.0 %

(-0.3) %

6

Eastern Australia Airlines (EAQ)

2,895,260

3.7 %

4.6 %

7

Airlink (QF7)

2,466,915

3.1 %

13.7 %

8

Regional Express (ZL)

2,192,728

2.8 %

(-0.5) %

9

VAustralia (VA)

1,816,045

2.3 %

New Entrant

10

Skywest Airlines (XR)

849,556

1.1 %

(-45.7) %

11

Airnorth Regional (TL)

412,956

0.5 %

8.0 %

12

Cathay Pacific Airways (CX)

352,378

0.4 %

(-7.7) %

13

Skytrans (Q6)

302,958

0.4 %

(-25.3) %

14

United Airlines (UA)

256,190

0.3 %

(-1.6) %

15

Brindabella Airlines (FQ)

214,517

0.3 %

61.8 %

TOTAL

78,990,587

-

5.4 %

DOMESTIC SKIES: SCHEDULED AIR CAPACITY IN AUSTRALIA (non-stop departures; 2013)

Rank

Airport

Available Seats

% Share

% Change v 2012

1

Sydney (SYD)

16,817,757

21.3 %

3.1 %

2

Melbourne (MEL)

15,029,243

19.0 %

5.4 %

3

Brisbane (BNE)

11,720,997

14.8 %

6.6 %

4

Perth (PER)

6,373,466

8.1 %

7.7 %

5

Adelaide (ADL)

4,512,777

5.7 %

3.7 %

6

Gold Coast (OOL)

3,094,470

3.9 %

6.4 %

7

Cairns (CNS)

2,593,007

3.3 %

8.0 %

8

Canberra (CBR)

2,273,837

2.9 %

(-2.5) %

9

Hobart (HBA)

1,343,350

1.7 %

13.7 %

10

Darwin (DRW)

1,221,197

1.5 %

4.7 %

11

Townsville (TSV)

1,169,454

1.5 %

3.2 %

12

Mackay (MKY)

884,416

1.1 %

11.7 %

13

Launceston (LST)

853,301

1.1 %

10.0 %

14

Newcastle Williamtown (NTL)

833,155

1.1 %

3.3 %

15

Karratha (KTA)

635,637

0.8 %

5.0 %

TOTAL

78,990,587

-

5.4 %

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Richard Maslen

Richard Maslen has travelled across the globe to report on developments in the aviation sector as airlines and airports have continued to evolve and…