Qantas has continued to improve its operational performance, again finishing the year as the most on time major domestic airline.

The latest monthly Government data released today, confirmed that 76.1 per cent of Qantas flights (Qantas and QantasLink combined) departed on time in 2024 compared to its major domestic competitor at 73.7 per cent.

This result makes Qantas the most on time major domestic airline for five years in a row, and an improvement on 2023 (74.1 per cent) and 2022 (69.2 per cent).

Qantas had a higher rate of on time flights than its major competitor for 10 out of 12 months in 2024. Qantas’ cancellation rate was 3.2 per cent for the year, down slightly from 2023 (3.5 per cent).

Despite it being one of the airline’s busiest festive seasons on record, the data released today shows Qantas departed on time 73.1 per cent of the time in December, an improvement from the previous month (4.9 percentage points higher) and December 2023 (3.6 percentage points) but 1.3 percentage points behind its competitor.

Qantas’ cancellation rate for December was 2.7 per cent, down from 3.4 per cent in November.