Is Rex Airlines reliable?
Ranked 79 of 94 US airlines on on-time record.
23,633 flights · March 2025 – August 2026 · US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
71.79%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
3.41%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
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When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
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Delays it caused itself
Rest was weather, ATC or security
Reading Rex Airlines’ record
Cancellation is where Rex Airlines stands out, and not well: it cancelled 3.41% of its flights against a median of 1.21% across the airlines here — 2.8 times the typical rate. Cancellation is also the outcome that costs a traveller a day rather than an hour, and the one that triggers a refund entitlement where delay does not.
Rex Airlines has been getting worse. Its later months run 7.3 points less punctual than its earlier ones. A drift of that size across a whole network is rarely weather; it more often means frequencies added faster than the operation can absorb them.
Rex Airlines sits in the bottom fifth of the 94 airlines measured.
It performs much the same wherever it flies, within about 5 points across its routes. That consistency is worth something on its own: the overall figure is a fair guide to what to expect on any particular route, which is not true of every carrier here.
Each axis is a percentile against the other US airlines in the same period, not an absolute score. Further out is better than most; nearer the centre is worse than most.
Rex Airlines in five measures
An airline's headline on-time rate hides more than it shows. Two carriers can both arrive on time 75% of the time while one is late by twelve minutes and the other by an hour, or while one is evenly mediocre everywhere and the other is excellent on most routes and dreadful on a few.
These five axes pull those apart. Each is scored against the other US airlines in the same period rather than on an absolute scale, because on-time rates cluster tightly enough that raw numbers would draw every carrier as the same shape.
Same everywhere is the one worth reading twice: it measures how far Rex Airlines’ on-time rate moves from route to route. A carrier scoring low there has an average propped up by routes you may not be flying.
Rex Airlines month by month
Its most reliable routes
- MEL → DPO Melbourne to Devonport 82.73%
- ABX → SYD East Albury to Sydney (Mascot) 80.05%
- SYD → ABX Sydney (Mascot) to East Albury 77.68%
- DPO → MEL Devonport to Melbourne 77.29%
- MEL → MQL Melbourne to Mildura 74.2%
- SYD → CFS Sydney (Mascot) to Coffs Harbour 73.94%
- PLO → ADL Port Lincoln to Adelaide 72.78%
- ADL → PLO Adelaide to Port Lincoln 70.98%
- SYD → WGA Sydney (Mascot) to Forest Hill 70.77%
- MQL → MEL Mildura to Melbourne 70.48%
Its worst routes
- PQQ → SYD Port Macquarie to Sydney (Mascot) 64.32%
- SYD → PQQ Sydney (Mascot) to Port Macquarie 65.21%
- CFS → SYD Coffs Harbour to Sydney (Mascot) 67.66%
- DBO → SYD Dubbo to Sydney (Mascot) 68.89%
- WGA → SYD Forest Hill to Sydney (Mascot) 69.02%
- SYD → DBO Sydney (Mascot) to Dubbo 70.29%
- MQL → MEL Mildura to Melbourne 70.48%
- SYD → WGA Sydney (Mascot) to Forest Hill 70.77%
- ADL → PLO Adelaide to Port Lincoln 70.98%
- PLO → ADL Port Lincoln to Adelaide 72.78%
How Rex Airlines compares
Figures cover March 2025 – August 2026 and are counted from the regulators' own published files. A grade describes the past and is not a prediction about a particular flight, nor a safety rating. How the grade is calculated →