Flights to Australia take a long time, a very long time. Australia is completely surrounded by ocean: there is no way to travel overland to Australia. Hence, all international visitors arrive by plane or by boat.

Almost all travellers with flights to Australia will first travel to one of the state capitals, as these have all the major airports and many of the major ports.

Flights to Australia are not just popular with travellers as the distances between major cities in Australia is huge, the popular travel method by locals is by air travel.

By land area it is the world’s sixth biggest country, but the population of the entire country is only comparable to that of the Seoul or Mexico City metropolitan area.

This means that great distances separate its cities and after leaving one city, you can sometimes expect to travel for hours by car or bus before finding the next trace of civilisation.

Due to these extremely large distances involved, flying is a well-patronised form of travel in Australia so fares are generally low, due to the amount of competition, and flights depart regularly.

Services along the main business travel corridor ( Melbourne-Sydney-Brisbane ) are run almost like a bus service, with flights leaving every 15 minutes during the day.