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Our role in domestic airline monitoring

The ACCC monitored the prices, costs and profits of the major domestic airlines as part of a government direction. This direction began in June 2020 and concluded in June 2023.

During the monitoring period the airlines monitored were Qantas, Jetstar, Virgin Australia, Rex and Bonza airlines.

In our role, we collected data from these airlines about their domestic passenger services.

We did this to:

  • uncover behaviour in the industry that may damage competition
  • identify signs that competition in the industry is not effective.

Monitoring reports

We reported our findings to the Treasurer at least once every 3 months. The reports present our analysis from the monitoring work we carried out during this period.

The reports present the ACCC’s analysis from the monitoring of prices, costs and profits of the major domestic airlines. Monitoring was part of a government direction and concluded in June 2023. 

The legal basis of our functions

Our functions came from the Competition and Consumer (Price Monitoring—Domestic Air Passenger Transport) Direction 2020. The Treasurer issued this direction under the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 in June 2020.

See also

ACCC to monitor competition in the domestic airline market (media release)

The Civil Aviation Safety Authority regulates civil aviation safety in Australia.