Program · Outcome 2: An efficient, sustainable, competitive, safe and secure transport system for all transport users through regulation, financial assistance and safety investigations
Program 2.3: Air Transport
The Air Transport Program facilitates investment in aviation infrastructure, ensures the aviation industry operates within a clear and robust regulatory framework, and ensures Australian businesses and consumers have access to competitive international and domestic air services, and access to regional and remote areas
Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 56 reported
$351m
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$115m (−24.7%) on 2025-26 estimated actual
Traced to named suppliers and grant recipients
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Published lines
Each row is one line of the program’s expense table in the 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements – Program Expense Line Items, as published.
| Line | Kind | 2025-26 estimated actual |
2026-27 Budget estimate |
Change | Treatment | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aviation Fuel Revenues (Special Appropriation) Act 1988 | administered | $127m | $132m | +$4.5m +3.5% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 980 |
| Ordinary annual services | administered | $185m | $113m | −$72m −38.9% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 978 |
| Payments to corporate entities | administered | $53m | $62m | +$8.9m +16.8% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 979 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | administered | $100m | $43m | −$57m −56.6% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 967 |
| RPAS levy (Special Appropriation) Act 2020 | administered | $1.0m | $1.0m | no change 0.0% | reported | Table 2.2.1, row 981 |