Already a subscriber?More planes are landing on time than at any time in the past two years as the country’s biggest airlines bring service back to levels only seen before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lengthy delays have plagued Qantas and Virgin Australia since travel restrictions introduced during the pandemic were eased in late 2022 and early last year. Virgin has had a big turnaround since November, with 75.1 per cent of domestic flights landing on time, the data released on Tuesday shows. The bureau said domestic flight cancellations in March fell to 2.8 per cent, still above the long-term average of 2.2 per cent.
“The continued focus of everyone at Qantas is to get our customers to their destination safely and on time, and the proof is in the data that we are very close to our pre-covid levels of reliability.”Airlines continued to cancel at double the average rate on the busiest – and most profitable – routes between Melbourne and Sydney. Qantas cancelled 6.6 per cent and Virgin 7.4 per cent of all their flights between the country’s two biggest cities.– QantasLink cancelled 2.