Flight time
2h 10m
Alice Springs to Darwin, scheduled
Alice Springs to Darwin
ASP → DRW · 1,305 km · Darwin to Alice Springs
Distance
1,305 km
great-circle
Punctuality for this route is no longer reported, though historical figures remain below. The route is busiest in August and quietest in January.
The route
1,305 km great-circle · 2h 10m typical
Cancellations over time
Punctuality data begins Nov 2003 and runs to Jan 2020. Gaps are months with no reported services, not missing data.
Punctuality is no longer reported for this route. The historical series above ends Jan 2020.
Passengers, 1984 to 2026
Not enough data to chart.
Not enough data to chart.
Traffic: to Jun 2026 · Marks show industry events
Passenger figures count both directions together — Alice Springs to Darwin and back. The published statistics do not separate them. Cancellations, punctuality and flight numbers above are for Alice Springs to Darwin 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 Alice Springs to Darwin is 2h 10m gate to gate, over 1,305 km. The return leg is scheduled at much the same, 2h 10m.
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
2 flight numbers currently scheduled from Alice Springs to Darwin. These are the numbers you book under — some are operated by a regional partner such as QantasLink or Alliance.
The route still operates, but it is no longer large enough to appear in the published passenger statistics — those end Jan 2020. The timetable below is current.
Typical flight time 2h 10m.
Scheduled every day this week — 11 departures in all.
Qantas · 2 · Embraer 190
QF1959 · QF1961
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 | 21,728 · Jul 1989 |
| Pandemic low | 4,726 · Jan 2020 |
| Great-circle distance | 1,305 km |
Traffic: to Jun 2026