Qantas had the most cancellations of any airline in Australia last month, according to new performance data, which also showed on-time arrival and departure rates across the industry well below average.

Qantas’ cancellation rate was 4.3 per cent, according to the Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics. Jetstar and Virgin Australia posted a cancellation rate of 4.1 per cent.

When combined with regional QantasLink services, Qantas’ figure was slightly better at 3.9 per cent.

But the flying kangaroo posted the highest number of on-time arrivals of the majors, at 73 per cent compared to 68.8 per cent for Virgin and 68 per cent for Jetstar.

Only 65.1 per cent of Qantas’ domestic — excluding QantasLink — left on time.

Jetstar had more cancellations on Perth services from East Coast capital cities compared to any other carrier.

The bureau said performance across all categories was still below the long run average.

“This month’s on time arrivals figure was significantly lower than the long term averageperformance for all routes (81.2 per cent) and the on time departures figure was also significantly lower than the long term average (82.3 per cent),” it said in its report.

“The rate of cancellations was higher than the long term average of 2.2 per cent.”

Regional Express — which only flies between Perth and regional centres in WA — had a cancellation rate of 2.3 per cent.

Melbourne-Sydney, which is the busiest route in the country, was the most cancelled service for both Qantas and Virgin.

Jetstar’s most cancelled route was between Adelaide and Sydney, while Rex cancelled more than one-fifth of its flights on regional east coast services such as Townsville-Cairns and Sydney-Armidale.

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