Passengers
464,979
Auckland to Brisbane, 12 months to May 2026
Auckland to Brisbane
New Zealand · 497 months of data from Jan 1985 · Brisbane to Auckland
Both directions
936,076
including Brisbane to Auckland
Flight time
3h 50m
45m longer than the return
At least
77%
full on this leg — a conservative floor
Traffic: 12 months to May 2026
464,979 passengers flew Auckland to Brisbane in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 936,076 on the route in both directions. This route has been reported for 41 years.
The route
Distances are true from Brisbane; the ring marks the distance to Auckland.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Auckland to Brisbane is 3h 50m gate to gate, over 2,298 km. Coming back takes 3h 5m — a difference of 45m, so this direction is the slower 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
14 flight numbers currently scheduled from Auckland to Brisbane. These are the numbers you book under.
Scheduled every day this week — 64 departures in all.
Qantas · 5 · Boeing 737-800, Boeing 737-800 (winglets), Airbus A321 NEO, Airbus A330-200
QF118 · QF120 · QF126 · QF5568 · QF5852
Air New Zealand · 4 · Airbus A320, Airbus A321 NEO, Boeing 787-9, Boeing 777-300
NZ141 · NZ145 · NZ147 · NZ149
China · 3 · Airbus A350, Airbus A350-900, Boeing 737-800 (winglets), Airbus A330-200
CI54 · CI8634 · CI8638
Jetstar · 2 · Airbus A320, Airbus A321 NEO
JQ150 · JQ154
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
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
When is this route busiest?
Average passengers by calendar month over the last ten years, relative to the annual average.
Freight
Tonnes of air freight carried on this route — a dimension the domestic data does not have at all.
To May 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 96,397 · Dec 2017 |
| Data coverage | Jan 1985 – May 2026 (497 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to May 2026 | 11,593 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.