Flight time
2h 45m
Alice Springs to Sydney, scheduled
Alice Springs to Sydney
ASP → SYD · 2,022 km · Sydney to Alice Springs
Distance
2,022 km
great-circle
Punctuality for this route is no longer reported, though historical figures remain below.
The route
2,022 km great-circle · 2h 45m typical
Cancellations over time
Punctuality data begins Nov 2003 and runs to Jul 2014. Gaps are months with no reported services, not missing data.
Punctuality is no longer reported for this route. The historical series above ends Jul 2014.
Passengers, 1984 to 2026
Not enough data to chart.
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Traffic: to Jun 2026 · Marks show industry events
Passenger figures count both directions together — Alice Springs to Sydney and back. The published statistics do not separate them. Cancellations, punctuality and flight numbers above are for Alice Springs to Sydney only.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Alice Springs to Sydney is 2h 45m gate to gate, over 2,022 km. The return leg is scheduled at 3h 20m — the two directions differ by 35m, so this way round is the quicker one.
A gap that size is normally the wind. Australia sits under strong westerly winds aloft, so eastbound flights ride them and westbound flights push into them — the same aircraft, the same distance, a different flight duration each way.
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
1 flight number currently scheduled from Alice Springs to Sydney. 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 Jul 2014. The timetable below is current.
Typical flight time 2h 45m.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri and Sun (6 departures).
Qantas · 1 · Boeing 737-800
QF791
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 | 17,337 · Oct 1994 |
| Great-circle distance | 2,022 km |
Traffic: to Jun 2026