Australian international air traffic data covers scheduled operations of airlines flying to and from Australia. It includes figures for passengers, freight, and mail carried, broken down by airline and country of uplift or discharge within single flight number services. The dataset is produced by the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics and was last updated on 2026-07-08.
Use Cases
- Analyze passenger traffic trends based on country-of-port breakdowns mentioned in the description
- Model freight and mail cargo volumes based on airline and country-of-origin/destination data
- Benchmark airline performance on specific international routes to and from Australia
- Assess market share of airlines operating in the Australian international aviation sector
Strengths
- Data covers multiple metrics: passengers, freight, and mail
- Breakdown is provided by airline and by country of port
- License is CC-BY-4.0, allowing for broad reuse
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to data_gov_au, focusing on Australian international routes
Provenance
- Source
- Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics
- Collection Method
- Likely collected from scheduled international airline operations reporting
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-08 05:43:32.172737; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- International flights to and from Australia