Cancelled
1.4%
0.7 pts better than average
Brisbane to Adelaide
BNE → ADL · 1,622 km · 333 flights a month · Adelaide to Brisbane
On time (departures)
80.4%
national 78.2%
Flight time
2h 55m
30m longer than the return
Latest month
1.9%
Jul 2026 cancelled
Airlines
4
on this direction
Punctuality: 12 months to Jul 2026
Flights between Brisbane and Adelaide carried 68,426 passengers in both directions in Jun 2026, ranking 17th of the 62 routes with reported traffic that month. Over the 12 months to Jul 2026, 1.4% of flights from Brisbane to Adelaide were cancelled, below the national average of 2.1%. The route is busiest in October and quietest in February.
The route
1,622 km great-circle · 2h 55m typical
Punctuality by airline
12 months to Jul 2026. Qantas and QantasLink are reported separately in the source data and are shown that way here — on many routes the difference between them is large.
| Airline | Group | Flights | Cancelled | On time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QantasLink | Qantas Group | 1,939 | 1.6% | 79.0% |
| Virgin Australia | Virgin Australia Group | 1,485 | 1.3% | 85.1% |
| Jetstar | 564 | 0.9% | 72.8% | |
| Qantas | Qantas Group | 5 | 0.0% | 80.0% |
Cancellations over time
Punctuality data begins Nov 2003 and runs to Jul 2026. Gaps are months with no reported services, not missing data.
Passengers, 1984 to 2026
Traffic: to Jun 2026 · Marks show industry events
Passenger figures count both directions together — Brisbane to Adelaide and back. The published statistics do not separate them. Cancellations, punctuality and flight numbers above are for Brisbane to Adelaide 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 Brisbane to Adelaide is 2h 55m gate to gate, over 1,622 km. The return leg is scheduled at 2h 25m — the two directions differ by 30m, so this way round is the slower 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
11 flight numbers currently scheduled from Brisbane to Adelaide. These are the numbers you book under — some are operated by a regional partner such as QantasLink or Alliance.
Typical flight time 2h 55m.
Scheduled every day this week — 59 departures in all.
Virgin Australia · 5 · Boeing 737-800 (winglets), Boeing 737-800, Boeing 737, Boeing 737-8MAX
VA1384 · VA1388 · VA1398 · VA1402 · VA1404
Qantas · 4 · Airbus A220-300
QF1277 · QF1281 · QF1283 · QF1285
Jetstar · 2 · Airbus A320, Airbus A321 NEO, Airbus A321-200 (Sharklets), Airbus A320-200
JQ800 · JQ804
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 | 86,017 · Oct 2019 |
| Pandemic low | 6,622 · Aug 2021 |
| Traffic vs 2019 average | 101.6% |
| Load factor, Jun 2026 | 82.4% |
| Aircraft trips, Jun 2026 | 587 |
| Great-circle distance | 1,622 km |
Traffic: to Jun 2026