Over four decades Australian domestic traffic has grown faster than airline capacity, so planes fly steadily fuller.
What this shows: The chart covers 1984 Q1 to 2025 Q3. It plots Revenue passenger-km (RPK), indexed, Available seat-km (ASK), indexed and Load Factor (%) on a vertical axis of Index (1984 Q1 = 100) for passenger-km and seat-km. Latest values: Revenue passenger-km (RPK), indexed 777.7; Available seat-km (ASK), indexed 666.9; Load Factor (%) 82.4.
Conditions and method
BITRE’s separate annual summary reports slightly fewer domestic passengers and revenue passenger-kilometres for the second half of 2018 than the monthly workbook these series come from.