Australian Flight Data

Auckland to Norfolk Island

New Zealand · 427 months of data from Jan 1985 · Norfolk Island to Auckland

Passenger traffic last recorded
Apr 2025
no passengers recorded in later published months
Years of data
36
Jan 1985 – Apr 2025
Busiest month
2,567
Aug 1989

Traffic: to May 2026

Passenger traffic between Auckland and Norfolk Island was last recorded in Apr 2025, after 204,827 passengers had been recorded since 2003. At its busiest the route carried 2,567 passengers in a single month, in Aug 1989.

The route

Norfolk Island Auckland

Distances are true from Norfolk Island; the ring marks the distance to Auckland.

Passengers, 1985 to 2025

0241481Rex enters administration and exits the trunk routes — Aug 2024 Cyclone Alfred closes south-east Queensland airports — Mar 2025 Apr 2024Dec 2024Apr 2025
0241481Delta lockdowns close the eastern states — Jul 2021 Bonza launches on leisure routes — Nov 2023 Bonza collapses after 15 months — Mar 2024 Rex enters administration and exits the trunk routes — Aug 2024 Cyclone Alfred closes south-east Queensland airports — Mar 2025 Jun 2021Oct 2023Apr 2025
07061,412Tigerair Australia stops flying — Feb 2020 COVID-19 border closures begin — Mar 2020 Delta lockdowns close the eastern states — Jul 2021 Bonza launches on leisure routes — Nov 2023 Bonza collapses after 15 months — Mar 2024 Rex enters administration and exits the trunk routes — Aug 2024 Cyclone Alfred closes south-east Queensland airports — Mar 2025 Apr 2015Mar 2020Apr 2025
01,2842,567The pilots' dispute grounds domestic aviation — Aug 1989 Domestic deregulation ends the Two Airline Policy — Oct 1990 Virgin Blue launches — Aug 2000 Ansett Australia collapses — Sep 2001 Jetstar launches — May 2004 OzJet's all-business experiment ends within months — Jan 2006 Tiger Airways Australia enters the market — Apr 2008 Volcanic ash cloud disrupts southern Australia — Jun 2011 Qantas grounds its entire fleet — Oct 2011 Skywest becomes Virgin Australia Regional Airlines — May 2013 Tigerair Australia stops flying — Feb 2020 COVID-19 border closures begin — Mar 2020 Delta lockdowns close the eastern states — Jul 2021 Bonza launches on leisure routes — Nov 2023 Bonza collapses after 15 months — Mar 2024 Rex enters administration and exits the trunk routes — Aug 2024 Cyclone Alfred closes south-east Queensland airports — Mar 2025 Jan 1985Oct 2002Apr 2025

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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.

37%52%66% Apr 2024Dec 2024Apr 2025
37%58%79% Jun 2021Nov 2023Apr 2025
37%60%83% Apr 2015Feb 2020Apr 2025
37%60%83% Sep 2003Oct 2012Apr 2025

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.

J: 1.10× the annual average J F: 0.88× the annual average F M: 1.09× the annual average M A: 1.26× the annual average A M: 1.59× the annual average M J: 0.98× the annual average J J: 0.93× the annual average J A: 0.76× the annual average A S: 0.70× the annual average S O: 0.83× the annual average O N: 0.92× the annual average N D: 0.95× the annual average D

Freight

Tonnes of air freight carried on this route — a dimension the domestic data does not have at all.

036 Apr 2024Dec 2024Apr 2025
036 Jun 2021Oct 2023Apr 2025
0612 Apr 2015Mar 2020Apr 2025
01224 Jan 1985Oct 2002Apr 2025

To Apr 2025

The route in numbers

Busiest month on record2,567 · Aug 1989
Data coverageJan 1985 – Apr 2025 (427 months)
Freight, 12 months to Apr 202519 tonnes
Destination regionNew 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.

Related routes

From Norfolk Island

To Auckland