Cancelled
0.8%
1.3 pts better than average
Brisbane to Canberra
BNE → CBR · 956 km · 292 flights a month · Canberra to Brisbane
On time (departures)
81.6%
national 78.2%
Flight time
1h 50m
scheduled, gate to gate
Latest month
0.0%
Jul 2026 cancelled
Airlines
3
on this direction
Punctuality: 12 months to Jul 2026
Flights between Brisbane and Canberra carried 54,812 passengers in both directions in Jun 2026, ranking 24th of the 62 routes with reported traffic that month. Over the 12 months to Jul 2026, 0.8% of flights from Brisbane to Canberra were cancelled, well below the national average of 2.1%. The route is busiest in July and quietest in February.
The route
956 km great-circle · 1h 50m 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 | 1,937 | 1.1% | 83.1% |
| Virgin Australia | Virgin Australia Group | 1,207 | 0.7% | 82.2% |
| Jetstar | 360 | 0.0% | 71.9% |
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 Canberra and back. The published statistics do not separate them. Cancellations, punctuality and flight numbers above are for Brisbane to Canberra 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 Canberra is 1h 50m gate to gate, over 956 km. The return leg is scheduled at much the same, 1h 45m.
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
18 flight numbers currently scheduled from Brisbane to Canberra. These are the numbers you book under — some are operated by a regional partner such as QantasLink or Alliance.
Typical flight time 1h 50m.
Scheduled every day this week — 69 departures in all.
Qantas · 12 · Embraer 190, Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 / DHC-8-400, Airbus A220-300, De Havilland Canada DHC-8-400 Dash 8Q
QF1517 · QF1945 · QF1947 · QF1949 · QF1951 · QF1953 · QF1955 · QF2311 · QF2313 · QF2315 · QF2317 · QF5656
Virgin Australia · 5 · Boeing 737-800, Boeing 737-800 (winglets), Boeing 737, Boeing 737-700
VA1206 · VA1210 · VA1224 · VA1226 · VA1228
Jetstar · 1 · Airbus A320, Airbus A321 NEO
JQ656
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 | 62,171 · Jul 2019 |
| Pandemic low | 1,177 · Sep 2021 |
| Traffic vs 2019 average | 95.7% |
| Load factor, Jun 2026 | 74.1% |
| Aircraft trips, Jun 2026 | 554 |
| Great-circle distance | 956 km |
Traffic: to Jun 2026