It’s been a year of growing frustration among the flying public as stubbornly high flight cancellations and poor on-time performance numbers – and the cost of travelling – all failed to fall.

Just 64 per cent of domestic flights were on time last month, an improvement of 2 per cent from a year earlier, and well below the long-term average of 81 per cent. The number of flights cancelled, meanwhile, has also remained high at some 3.7 per cent in November. That’s nearly double the long-term average, according to statistics published by the Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics (BITRE).