The data cover revenue passengers carried by Australian-registered operators of scheduled regular public transport services over Australian flight stages. 
These estimates include passengers carried between domestic airports on international flights operated by these carriers.
The passengers carried refer to traffic on board by stages.
Traffic on board by stages - The total of all traffic (revenue passengers) on each flight stage between two directly connected airports.

Individual routes shown are restricted to those with an average exceeding 8 000 passengers per month over the previous six months where two or more airlines operate in competition. For the month of March 2016 there were 66 such routes. 
Cells with zero indicate where data is not available or where the route did not meet the publication criteria above.

Definitions:
Aircraft Trips - The number of flight stages. A return flight counts as two aircraft trips.
Available Seat Kilometres (ASKs) - Calculated by multiplying the number of seats available on each flight stage, by the distance in kilometres between the ports. The distances used are Great Circle Distances.
City-Pair - The ports shown make up the city-pair route. Passenger movements shown for a city pair reflect total traffic in both directions.
Distance - Great Circle Distances between two airports.
Flight Stage - The operation of an aircraft from take-off to landing.
Passengers Carried - Revenue passengers carried.
Passenger Load Factor - The total revenue passenger kilometres performed as a percentage of the total available seat kilometres.
Regular Public Transport Services (RPT) - All air service operations in which aircraft are available for the transport of members of the public and are conducted in accordance with fixed schedules. It does not include charter or other non-scheduled operations.
Revenue Passengers - All passengers paying any fare. Frequent flyer redemption travellers are regarded as revenue passengers.
Revenue Passenger Kilometres (RPKs) - Calculated by multiplying the number of revenue passengers travelling on each flight stage, by the distance in kilometres between the ports. The distances used are Great Circle Distances.