Aircraft movements: Sydney (units) - Australia - BITRE - Monthly
This series is part of the dataset: Australian Airport Traffic (BITRE)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In Australia, at Sydney airport, the number of aircraft movements was 23,402 in May 2026, compared to 24,625 in April 2026. This constitutes a reduction of 4.97 percent.
Sample. There are 209 observations in the monthly series shown in the plot above. The series covers the time range stretching from January 2009 to May 2026.
History. Here are a few simple statistics we computed on the whole sample: aircraft movements recorded a maximum of 28,554 in October 2019; they recorded a bottom of 3,523 in April 2020; they were equal on average to 23,267.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Units |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-31 | 24,904.0 |
| 2026-04-30 | 24,625.0 |
| 2026-05-31 | 23,402.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Aircraft movements: Sydney |
| Country | Australia |
| Economic concept | Flow |
| Data type | Quantity |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Unit | Units |
| Source | Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics |
| Source type | Government agency |
| Data licence | Commonwealth of Australia permission |
| Other information | Scheduled regular public transport (RPT) services; inbound plus outbound movements |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | SM1 |
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