Air New Zealand

international services · records from Jan 1985

Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026

International passengers over time

International traffic to Jun 2026

International history milestones

Passenger milestones use complete calendar years only; a missing month stays missing and the partial current year cannot set the historical peak. Current breadth uses the global passenger window 2025-07 to 2026-06. Recorded destinations are passenger-record entities, not necessarily nonstop current services.

Routes it flies

20 routes in the 12 months to Jun 2026, by flights operated.

Flights: 12 months to Jun 2026

Flight counts, not passengers. Route-level records begin in Sep 2003 — the passenger history below goes back further but is grouped by destination rather than by city.

Routes it no longer flies

• Norfolk Island ↔ Auckland — 1,713 flights, Sep 2003 to May 2017
• Sydney ↔ Rarotonga — 1,005 flights, Aug 2006 to Mar 2020
• Sydney ↔ Rotorua — 985 flights, Dec 2009 to Apr 2015
• Melbourne ↔ San Francisco — 786 flights, Mar 2007 to Oct 2008
• Melbourne ↔ Los Angeles — 648 flights, Mar 2006 to Mar 2008
• Brisbane ↔ Dunedin — 585 flights, Mar 2008 to Oct 2011
• Perth ↔ Christchurch — 458 flights, Dec 2013 to Mar 2019
• Sydney ↔ Dunedin — 345 flights, Mar 2008 to Mar 2011
• Brisbane ↔ Hamilton — 311 flights, Mar 2008 to Apr 2009
• Brisbane ↔ Los Angeles — 283 flights, Feb 2007 to Oct 2021
• Gold Coast ↔ Wellington — 258 flights, Mar 2008 to Oct 2009
• Sydney ↔ Hamilton — 248 flights, Mar 2008 to Mar 2009
• Melbourne ↔ Rarotonga — 227 flights, Jun 2005 to Oct 2009
• Gold Coast ↔ Hamilton — 172 flights, Apr 2008 to Jan 2009
• Melbourne ↔ Dunedin — 98 flights, Oct 2008 to Mar 2011
• Sydney ↔ Nadi — 5 flights, Nov 2009 to Dec 2009
• Brisbane ↔ Honolulu — 2 flights, Jul 2008 to Jul 2008
• Melbourne ↔ Honolulu — 2 flights, Jul 2008 to Jul 2008
• Sydney ↔ Apia — 2 flights, Dec 2009 to Oct 2020
• Sydney ↔ Papeete — 2 flights, Feb 2012 to Feb 2012

Showing the 20 busiest of 21.

Passengers by destination

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12 months to Jun 2026

Destinations it no longer serves

Carried passengers at some point since 1985, none in the 12 months to Jun 2026.

• USA — 1,353,924 passengers, Mar 1989 to Oct 2021
• Cook Islands — 181,385 passengers, Apr 2005 to Mar 2020
• Taiwan — 141,077 passengers, Nov 1992 to Dec 1999
• Korea — 77,466 passengers, Nov 1993 to Dec 1997
• Thailand — 72,658 passengers, Nov 1992 to Oct 1997
• Japan — 34,488 passengers, Nov 1994 to Oct 1997
• Fiji — 944 passengers, Sep 2000 to Dec 2009
• Western Samoa — 450 passengers, Dec 2009 to Oct 2020
• Tahiti — 273 passengers, Feb 2012 to Feb 2012
• China — 0 passengers, to
• Germany — 0 passengers, to

Punctuality is not published for international flights, so there is no on-time or cancellation figure here for Air New Zealand's services to and from Australia — only for domestic flights, and only where an airline operates them.