Only 1.8% of Australia`s domestic flights were cancelled in 2018. (photo of travel website Escape)
Just 1.8 percent of Australia`s domestic flights were cancelled in 2018, according to new data from (Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics), Australia`s infrastructure, transport and regional economic, according to travel website Escape.
It is reported that in 2018, Australia`s domestic flights were cancelled only 1.8%. The most unreliable route is the Melbourne-Adelaide route run by Virgin local airline (Virgin Regional), with 20 percent cancelled flights and 42 percent on-time flights. The same company`s Alice Springs (Alice Springs)-Darwin flight was cancelled at 6.4%.
However, Virgin operated most of its flights to and from Melbourne and Adelaide, rather than a regional subsidiary, with 2.2 percent of cancellations, closer to the Australian average. Therefore, when booking flights to and from Melbourne and Adelaide, passengers should be careful to choose Virgin Australia over Virgin Australia.
Only 1.8% of Australia`s domestic flights were cancelled in 2018. (photo of travel website Escape)
Qantas (Qantas) `s most unreliable domestic route is the Sydney-Melbourne route, with 5.8 percent cancelled. However, because Qantas has so many flights, with a total of 23776 trips a year, the chances of taking another flight on the same day are still high if the flight is cancelled.
But passengers may face a different situation if they choose a low-cost airline, Jetstar (Jetstar), or Tiger Airlines, (Tigerair), on the same route. The cancellations of the two companies` flights on this route exceed those on other routes.
The average cancellation rate for all Australian airlines to and from Sydney-Melbourne is 5.4 percent.
In addition, if passengers take Qantas subsidiary QantasLink flights between Hamilton Island (Hamilton Island) and Sydney, it will be more difficult to adjust flexibly in the face of cancellations, with only six flights a week. If Friday`s flight is canceled, passengers will have to wait until Sunday to get to the company`s next flight.
The worst performing route for the regional airline Regional Express was the (Townsville) route in Keynes (Cairns)-Tang, where 4.2 percent of flights were cancelled.
In order to minimize the impact of flight cancellations, passengers are advised to avoid check-in luggage as much as possible while traveling. Once the flight is cancelled, you will be more flexible to adjust, as long as you switch to another flight without taking time to find luggage.
