Australian Flight Data

Adelaide to Auckland

New Zealand · 453 months of data from Jan 1985 · Auckland to Adelaide

Passengers
47,878
Adelaide to Auckland, 12 months to May 2026
Both directions
94,336
including Auckland to Adelaide
Flight time
4h 20m
40m shorter than the return
Load factor
82%
seats filled on this leg

Traffic: 12 months to May 2026

47,878 passengers flew Adelaide to Auckland in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 94,336 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 82% full, much the same in both directions. This route has been reported for 38 years.

The route

Adelaide Auckland

Distances are true from Adelaide; the ring marks the distance to Auckland.

How long is the flight?

Scheduled flight time from Adelaide to Auckland is 4h 20m gate to gate, over 3,259 km. Coming back takes 5h — a difference of 40m, so this direction is the quicker one.

Scheduled block time — gate to gate, not time in the air — taken from the current timetable for this leg. Long-haul flights are often timetabled differently in each direction because of winds aloft, so the return is not always the same length. Check your own booking for the flight you are taking.

Flight numbers on this route

1 flight number currently scheduled from Adelaide to Auckland. These are the numbers you book under.

Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Wed, Fri and Sun (3 departures).

Air New Zealand · 1 · Airbus A320, Airbus A321 NEO

NZ192

Current timetable as at 2026-09-06

Timetables change, and these carry no punctuality figures of their own — no on-time data is published for international flights at all. The passenger and load factor figures above cover the route, not any single flight number.

Passengers, 1985 to 2026

05,44110,882 May 2025Nov 2025May 2026
05,65411,308Delta lockdowns close the eastern states — Jul 2021 Bonza launches on leisure routes — Nov 2023 Bonza collapses after 15 months — Mar 2024 Rex enters administration and exits the trunk routes — Aug 2024 Cyclone Alfred closes south-east Queensland airports — Mar 2025 May 2021Mar 2024May 2026
05,65411,308Tigerair Australia stops flying — Feb 2020 COVID-19 border closures begin — Mar 2020 Delta lockdowns close the eastern states — Jul 2021 Bonza launches on leisure routes — Nov 2023 Bonza collapses after 15 months — Mar 2024 Rex enters administration and exits the trunk routes — Aug 2024 Cyclone Alfred closes south-east Queensland airports — Mar 2025 May 2016Apr 2022May 2026
05,71811,436The pilots' dispute grounds domestic aviation — Aug 1989 Domestic deregulation ends the Two Airline Policy — Oct 1990 Virgin Blue launches — Aug 2000 Ansett Australia collapses — Sep 2001 OzJet's all-business experiment ends within months — Jan 2006 Tiger Airways Australia enters the market — Apr 2008 Volcanic ash cloud disrupts southern Australia — Jun 2011 Qantas grounds its entire fleet — Oct 2011 Skywest becomes Virgin Australia Regional Airlines — May 2013 Tigerair Australia stops flying — Feb 2020 COVID-19 border closures begin — Mar 2020 Delta lockdowns close the eastern states — Jul 2021 Bonza launches on leisure routes — Nov 2023 Bonza collapses after 15 months — Mar 2024 Rex enters administration and exits the trunk routes — Aug 2024 Cyclone Alfred closes south-east Queensland airports — Mar 2025 Jan 1985Oct 2005May 2026

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How full were the flights?

Inbound load factor, read as a floor rather than an exact figure. Some flights on this pair also carried passengers to and from other cities, and their seats cannot be split between those journeys. Dividing by every seat on every aircraft that touched the route gives the lowest the true figure can be, so actual occupancy is at or above the line. Seat data begins in 2009, so this series is shorter than the passenger chart above.

71%78%85% May 2025Nov 2025May 2026
13%80%146% May 2021Apr 2024May 2026
13%80%146% May 2016Jul 2021May 2026
13%80%146% Dec 2004Jan 2015May 2026

Load factor: seats data from 2009

When is this route busiest?

Average passengers by calendar month over the last ten years, relative to the annual average.

J: 1.25× the annual average J F: 0.99× the annual average F M: 1.21× the annual average M A: 1.04× the annual average A M: 0.77× the annual average M J: 0.68× the annual average J J: 0.84× the annual average J A: 0.79× the annual average A S: 0.99× the annual average S O: 1.12× the annual average O N: 1.13× the annual average N D: 1.19× the annual average D

Freight

Tonnes of air freight carried on this route — a dimension the domestic data does not have at all.

0817 May 2025Nov 2025May 2026
0104208 May 2021Mar 2024May 2026
0104208 May 2016Apr 2022May 2026
0104208 Jan 1985Oct 2005May 2026

To May 2026

The route in numbers

Busiest month on record11,436 · Jan 2014
Data coverageJan 1985 – May 2026 (453 months)
Freight, 12 months to May 2026158 tonnes
Destination regionNew Zealand

No punctuality data is published for international services, so there are no cancellation or on-time figures on this page. That series covers domestic routes only.

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