Skies of October

About the data

This is a reconstructed timetable of every scheduled domestic passenger flight in Australia for October 2026: flights across airports. October has only just ended, so no flight-by-flight record of it is public yet. The schedule is rebuilt from the most recent official counts.

How many flights, on which routes, by which airline. From BITRE's on-time performance time series, which records sectors scheduled for every route and airline above its reporting threshold. The latest month published is September 2026. Each count is scaled to 31 days and by that airline's October-to-September change in 2025. Each airline's flights on smaller routes (its BITRE total minus the listed routes) are spread across its known regional routes, using estimated weekly frequencies. Airnorth doesn't report to BITRE, so its flights are estimates.

When they fly. Departure times are synthesised: each route gets a daily timetable shaped by the typical domestic peaks around 6–8am and 4–7pm, with Perth and Darwin red-eyes, fewer flights on Saturdays, about 1.8% cancellations and realistic taxi and delay times. Local timetables shift to daylight saving on Sunday 4 October in NSW, Victoria, the ACT, Tasmania, South Australia, Lord Howe and Norfolk Island; Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia stay put.

How long they take. Great-circle distance at typical jet or turboprop speeds, with westbound flights slowed and eastbound flights sped up by the prevailing westerlies.

So route and airline volumes track the real network closely, but individual departure times and flight numbers are illustrative, not the published timetable.

Sources: BITRE airline on-time performance time series (September 2026 release) · coastline from Natural Earth via world-atlas.