Passengers
7,240
Adelaide to Christchurch, 12 months to May 2026
Adelaide to Christchurch
New Zealand · 135 months of data from Dec 1987 · Christchurch to Adelaide
Both directions
14,548
including Christchurch to Adelaide
Load factor
85%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to May 2026
7,240 passengers flew Adelaide to Christchurch in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 14,548 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 85% full, much the same in both directions.
Passenger history milestones
Recorded milestones use this city-pair passenger series, with both directions combined. A first positive record is not a service-launch date; complete calendar years require all twelve observed, non-null months.
First positive passenger record
Dec 1987
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Peak complete year
1992
1,619 passengers
Latest complete year
2002
584 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Adelaide; the ring marks the distance to Christchurch.
Passengers, 1987 to 2026
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
To May 2026 · Marks show industry events
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.
Load factor: seats data from 2009
Freight
Tonnes of air freight carried on this route — a dimension the domestic data does not have at all.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
To May 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 2,588 · Jan 2026 |
| Data coverage | Dec 1987 – May 2026 (135 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to May 2026 | 9 tonnes |
| Destination region | New 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.