{"id":270561,"date":"2025-11-08T07:47:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T07:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/270561\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T07:47:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T07:47:29","slug":"australias-busiest-international-air-route-city-pairs-revealed-with-melbourne-singapore-surprising-analysts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/270561\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s busiest international air route city pairs revealed with Melbourne-Singapore surprising analysts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia\u2019s busiest international air route city pairs have been revealed with Melbourne<\/a>-Singapore surprising analysts to sit at number one, with more than 1.776 million passengers flying that route each year.<\/p>\n

Singapore features in all top three positions, with Sydney<\/a>-Singapore (1.705m) and Perth<\/a>-Singapore (1.455m) coming second and third respectively.<\/p>\n

Perhaps another surprise was Perth-Denpasar (1.110m) sitting so high in fifth, boosted in part by a larger number of low-cost international airlines flying to Perth compared to other major cities.<\/p>\n

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Brisbane<\/a> \u2014 hit hardest by Virgin\u2019s departure from long haul international flying in 2020 \u2014 doesn\u2019t feature until 8th spot, where Brisbane-Singapore (946,306) sits ahead of Brisbane-Auckland (928,353) and Sydney-Hong Kong (922,351).<\/p>\n

The data was compiled by AnalyticFlying.com<\/a> from the federal government\u2019s Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics (BITRE) figures.<\/p>\n

Evan from Analytic Flying says the figures can jump around from year to year.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the last year, on some Qantas Singapore flights operated with Finnair aircraft, quite a few of those flights got cancelled when Finnair had some strikes,\u201d he told 7NEWS.<\/p>\n

Qantas leases Finnair Airbus A330s and flies them between Sydney and Singapore\/Bangkok.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of them got made up [for] by Qantas with larger aircraft, but some didn\u2019t. So it\u2019s difficult to sort of disentangle the short-term variations in capacity from patterns or events,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\"BusiestBusiest international flight routes from Australian cities. Credit: Analyticflying.com\/ 7NEWS<\/p>\n

Another quirk of the data is that passengers flying Sydney-Singapore-London on Qantas are not added to the Sydney-Singapore route\u2019s passenger numbers.<\/p>\n

Instead they are recorded simply as Sydney-London passengers because the flight number (QF1 outbound or QF2 inbound) doesn\u2019t change across the two legs.<\/p>\n

Qantas passengers flying Melbourne-Singapore-London are counted on Melbourne-Singapore because the flight number (eg. QF37) is different to the Singapore-London leg (QF 1 \/ QF 2).<\/p>\n

\u201cI suppose the biggest surprise,\u201d says Analytic Flying\u2019s Evan, \u201cThere was a lot more capacity to New Zealand before the pandemic, and at the same time, higher traveller numbers between Australia and New Zealand.\u201d<\/p>\n

Auckland features in three of the top 10 busiest routes involving Australian cities.<\/p>\n

This also points to Virgin\u2019s decision to pull out of much of its trans-tasman flying after covid \u2014 VA only offers services to Queenstown, relying on a codeshare agreement with Air New Zealand to service other cities.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve seen significant loss of capacity between Australia and New Zealand that leads to higher fares over time,\u201d Evan explained.<\/p>\n

Brisbane has around 150,000 fewer seats than before the pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s actually quite worrying,\u201d says Analytic Flying, \u201cbecause Brisbane has poached a lot of international flights from Gold Coast during that time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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