Cancelled
4.9%
2.8 pts worse than average
Adelaide to Port Lincoln
ADL → PLO · 246 km · 247 flights a month · Port Lincoln to Adelaide
On time (departures)
79.9%
national 78.2%
Flight time
55m
scheduled, gate to gate
Latest month
3.6%
Jul 2026 cancelled
Airlines
2
on this direction
Punctuality: 12 months to Jul 2026
Flights between Adelaide and Port Lincoln carried 13,577 passengers in both directions in Jun 2026, ranking 51st of the 62 routes with reported traffic that month. Over the 12 months to Jul 2026, 4.9% of flights from Adelaide to Port Lincoln were cancelled, well above the national average of 2.1%. Which airline you fly matters: Rex Airlines cancelled 6.3% of its flights in this direction, 2.2× the rate of QantasLink at 2.8%.
The route
246 km great-circle · 55m typical
Punctuality by airline
12 months to Jul 2026. Qantas and QantasLink are reported separately in the source data and are shown that way here — on many routes the difference between them is large.
| Airline | Group | Flights | Cancelled | On time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rex Airlines | 1,791 | 6.3% | 73.1% | |
| QantasLink | Qantas Group | 1,177 | 2.8% | 89.9% |
Cancellations over time
Punctuality data begins Nov 2003 and runs to Jul 2026. Gaps are months with no reported services, not missing data.
Passengers, 1994 to 2026
Traffic: to Jun 2026 · Marks show industry events
Passenger figures count both directions together — Adelaide to Port Lincoln and back. The published statistics do not separate them. Cancellations, punctuality and flight numbers above are for Adelaide to Port Lincoln only.
When is this route busiest?
Average passengers by calendar month, relative to the annual average. 2020 and 2021 are excluded — those years were a structural break, not a season, and leaving them in shifts the apparent peak month on most routes. Higher months are typically the more expensive ones to fly.
Both directions combined, as published.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Adelaide to Port Lincoln is 55m gate to gate, over 246 km. The return leg is scheduled at much the same, 50m.
This is scheduled block time — from leaving the gate to reaching it at the other end — not time in the air, and not a substitute for checking your own booking. It is a median across the flights currently timetabled on this leg.
Flight numbers on this route
12 flight numbers currently scheduled from Adelaide to Port Lincoln. These are the numbers you book under — some are operated by a regional partner such as QantasLink or Alliance.
Typical flight time 55m.
Scheduled every day this week — 59 departures in all.
Rex · 7 · Saab 340, Saab 340B
ZL4356 · ZL4362 · ZL4366 · ZL4376 · ZL4388 · ZL4396 · ZL4398
Qantas · 5 · Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 / DHC-8-400, De Havilland Canada DHC-8-400 Dash 8Q
QF2581 · QF2583 · QF2585 · QF2587 · QF2589
Current timetable as at 2026-09-06
Timetables change; these are not a booking source and carry no punctuality figures of their own. The cancellation and on-time rates above are for the route as a whole, not for any single flight number — per-flight performance is not collected.
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 19,164 · Mar 2011 |
| Pandemic low | 8,890 · Jul 2021 |
| Traffic vs 2019 average | 98.4% |
| Load factor, Jun 2026 | 56.8% |
| Aircraft trips, Jun 2026 | 477 |
| Great-circle distance | 246 km |
Traffic: to Jun 2026