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10. Glossary
Data Sourced from the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE)
Regular public transport (RPT): all air service operations in which aircraft are available for
the transport of members of the public, or for use by members of the public for the transport of
cargo (freight and/or mail), for hire or reward and which are conducted in accordance with
fixed schedules to and from fixed terminals over specific routes with or without intermediate
stopping places between terminals. Charter or other non-scheduled operations are excluded.
Revenue passengers: International revenue passengers from July 2000 are all passengers
paying any fare (frequent flyer redemption passengers are regarded as revenue passengers).
To December 1999 international revenue passengers were passengers paying 25% or more of
the standard fare. The change was phased in from January 2000 to June 2000. Domestic
revenue passengers are those passengers paying any level of fare on scheduled domestic RPT
services. Generally, regional revenue passengers are those passengers paying 25% or more of
the standard airfare on scheduled regional airline services.
Major Australian-registered Airlines: those airlines which perform scheduled RPT operations
within Australia and its Territories and whose fleets include high capacity aircraft, that is
aircraft with more than 38 seats or with a payload greater than 4,200 kilograms. Subsidiary
regional airline operations in jet aircraft are included, while operations in turbo-prop aircraft
by subsidiaries are also included for the top 33 competitive pairs only. This latter part of the
definition makes it difficult to compare with past data.
Domestic airlines: revenue traffic carried by the operators of scheduled domestic regular
public transport services, and excluding charter (non-scheduled) traffic and regional airline
services.
Regional airlines: revenue traffic carried by the operators of scheduled regional regular public
transport services, and excluding charter (non-scheduled) services. Includes those airlines
whose fleets contain exclusively low capacity aircraft, defined as aircraft with 38 seats or less
or with a payload of 4,200 kilograms or less. Note: SACL uses a weight-based definition,
defining regional aircraft as any aircraft (in a Domestic or Regional Airline fleet) with a
maximum take-off weight (MTOW) of less than 20,000 kg.
General Aviation: all non-scheduled flying activity except for that performed by the RPT
airlines, but including non-scheduled flying by the regional airlines.
Aircraft movements: a landing or take-off.
Airport traffic statistics: cover revenue traffic uplifted and discharged at principal Australian
airports by the operators of RPT services. International and regional airline traffic is based on
uplifts and discharges within flight. Data for domestic airlines is based on traffic on board by
stages, which aggregates all traffic on each flight stage arriving at or departing from the
airport.
A flight: is an operation comprising one or more stages and conducted under a single flight
number.
A stage: is the direct aerial connection of two airports.