On-time arrivals were still the second-worst of every major region, above only North America at 74 per cent and well below the global average of 86 per cent.
The information gathered will provide indicative costs and time frames for the potential delivery of a system to conduct maritime surveillance activities across the South-West Pacific.
Central to the operation is a small, highly specialised team made up of Australia’s 114 Mobile Control and Reporting Unit and the US 552nd Air Control Wing, working together in real time to coordinate air operations across the battlespace.
Numbers climbed by more than 1 million, or 4 per cent, on the previous financial year, with more than 7 million international passengers – up 7.9 per cent – and 18 million domestic passengers, up 2.5 per cent.
On-time arrivals were still the second-worst of every major region, above only North America at 74 per cent and well below the global average of 86 per cent.