Monthly traffic on the busiest domestic airline routes in Australia, including passengers, flights and seats by origin–destination pair. Data cover revenue (paying) passengers on regular public transport (RPT) services from 2016 onward.
Format
Data frame with columns:
- origin_airport
Three-letter IATA code of the origin airport (e.g. "SYD" for Sydney).
- dest_airport
Three-letter IATA code of the destination airport (e.g. "MEL" for Melbourne).
- origin_city
Name of the origin city (e.g.
"Sydney").- dest_city
Name of the destination city (e.g.
"Melbourne").- year
Calendar year, e.g. 2016.
- month
Calendar month 1–12 (1 = January, 12 = December).
- n_passengers
Number of revenue (paying) passengers carried on the route in that month, both directions combined.
- n_flights
Number of aircraft trips (flights) operated on the route in that month.
- n_seats
Total number of seats offered on flights on the route in that month (capacity).
Source
Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics (BITRE), Domestic aviation statistics – Top routes. Data downloaded from https://www.bitre.gov.au/publications/ongoing/domestic_airline_activity-time_series.
Examples
au_dom_routes
#> # A tibble: 8,595 × 9
#> origin_airport dest_airport origin_city dest_city year month n_passengers
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
#> 1 ABX SYD Albury Sydney 2016 1 16007
#> 2 ABX SYD Albury Sydney 2016 2 16461
#> 3 ABX SYD Albury Sydney 2016 3 19486
#> 4 ABX SYD Albury Sydney 2016 4 19155
#> 5 ABX SYD Albury Sydney 2016 5 19278
#> 6 ABX SYD Albury Sydney 2016 6 17766
#> 7 ABX SYD Albury Sydney 2016 7 19599
#> 8 ABX SYD Albury Sydney 2016 8 20126
#> 9 ABX SYD Albury Sydney 2016 9 20218
#> 10 ABX SYD Albury Sydney 2016 10 19717
#> # ℹ 8,585 more rows
#> # ℹ 2 more variables: n_flights <dbl>, n_seats <dbl>