Passengers
658,765
Auckland to Sydney, 12 months to Jun 2026
Auckland to Sydney
New Zealand · 498 months of data from Jan 1985 · Sydney to Auckland
Both directions
1,321,410
including Sydney to Auckland
Flight time
3h 50m
45m longer than the return
At least
76%
full on this leg — a conservative floor
Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026
658,765 passengers flew Auckland to Sydney in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 1,321,410 on the route in both directions. This route has been reported for 42 years.
Passenger history milestones
Recorded milestones use this city-pair passenger series, with both directions combined. A first positive record is not a service-launch date; complete calendar years require all twelve observed, non-null months.
First positive passenger record
Jan 1985
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Peak complete year
2016
1,604,944 passengers
Latest complete year
2025
1,334,224 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Sydney; the ring marks the distance to Auckland.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Auckland to Sydney is 3h 50m gate to gate, over 2,164 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
18 flight numbers currently scheduled from Auckland to Sydney. These are the numbers you book under.
Scheduled every day this week — 90 departures in all.
Qantas · 9 · Boeing 737-800, Airbus A320, Airbus A330-200, Boeing 787-9
QF4 · QF140 · QF142 · QF144 · QF146 · QF148 · QF5515 · QF5517 · QF5522
Air New Zealand · 4 · Airbus A320, Boeing 777-300ER, Boeing 787, Boeing 787-9
NZ101 · NZ103 · NZ109 · NZ111
Jetstar · 3 · Airbus A320
JQ202 · JQ204 · JQ206
LATAM · 2 · Boeing 787-9, Boeing 737-800
LA4802 · LA4814
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 Jun 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.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
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 Jun 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 162,036 · Jan 2016 |
| Data coverage | Jan 1985 – Jun 2026 (498 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Jun 2026 | 33,533 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.