Business air travel down

RECENT research from Roy Morgan has revealed that business travel within Australia has declined since the end of the mining boom. Comparing 2010 to 2017, (as

pictured above) Roy Morgan found there had been a drop of 1.3% over that time frame to 2.2 million business pax.

Western Australia (-4.1%) and Queensland (-3.9%) witnessed the biggest decreases due to a fall in fly-in fly-out workers.

Despite a decline in business travel, Queensland and Western Australia still remain the two states with the most people who travel for business with 14.1% and 15.7% respectively.

Tasmania (-2.8%) was the only other state higher than the national average of -1.3%, when comparing 2010 to 2017.

Victoria - the second most populated state - was the only state to buck the trend, with an increase of 0.3% from 10.2% to 10.5% over the surveyed period.

Roy Morgan ceo Michele Levine said end of the mining boom hit airline flying to WA, with the carriers not being able to make up the loss elsewhere.

“Although the overall number of business air travellers around Australia was relatively unchanged over the past seven years, far more business pax, now 29.3% up 4.4%, are heading to NSW.”

Victoria was the second most popular destination at 22.8%.