Cancelled
0.9%
1.2 pts better than average
Brisbane to Hamilton Island
BNE → HTI · 888 km · 65 flights a month · Hamilton Island to Brisbane
On time (departures)
82.0%
national 78.2%
Flight time
1h 50m
15m longer than the return
Latest month
0.0%
Jul 2026 cancelled
Airlines
3
on this direction
Punctuality: 12 months to Jul 2026
Flights between Brisbane and Hamilton Island carried 16,123 passengers in both directions in Jun 2026, ranking 45th of the 62 routes with reported traffic that month. Over the 12 months to Jul 2026, 0.9% of flights from Brisbane to Hamilton Island were cancelled, well below the national average of 2.1%. Direction matters here: Brisbane→Hamilton Island departs on time 82.0% of the time against 73.5% coming back. Traffic now runs 38% above its 2019 average. The route is busiest in December and quietest in February.
The route
888 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Virgin Australia | Virgin Australia Group | 425 | 0.5% | 84.6% |
| QantasLink | Qantas Group | 345 | 1.4% | 78.5% |
| Qantas | Qantas Group | 15 | 0.0% | 86.7% |
Does the direction matter?
On this route it does. Delays build up through the day, so the aircraft flying the return leg is often already behind schedule. Cancellations, by contrast, usually take out both legs — which is why those figures barely differ.
| Direction | On time | Cancelled | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hamilton Island → Brisbane | 73.5% | 1.0% | 786 |
| Brisbane → Hamilton Island | 82.0% | 0.9% | 785 |
A 8.5 point gap in on-time departures · 12 months to Jul 2026
Cancellations over time
Punctuality data begins Nov 2003 and runs to Jul 2026. Gaps are months with no reported services, not missing data.
Passengers, 1994 to 2026
Traffic: to Jun 2026 · Marks show industry events
Passenger figures count both directions together — Brisbane to Hamilton Island and back. The published statistics do not separate them. Cancellations, punctuality and flight numbers above are for Brisbane to Hamilton Island 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 Hamilton Island is 1h 50m gate to gate, over 888 km. The return leg is scheduled at 1h 35m — the two directions differ by 15m, so this way round is the slower one.
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
5 flight numbers currently scheduled from Brisbane to Hamilton Island. 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 — 16 departures in all.
Qantas · 3 · Airbus A220-300, Embraer 190, Boeing 737-800, Boeing 737-800 (winglets)
QF580 · QF1592 · QF1898
Virgin Australia · 2 · Boeing 737-800, Boeing 737-800 (winglets)
VA1493 · VA1495
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 | 24,211 · Oct 2021 |
| Pandemic low | 6,578 · Mar 2020 |
| Traffic vs 2019 average | 138.3% |
| Load factor, Jun 2026 | 78.1% |
| Aircraft trips, Jun 2026 | 131 |
| Great-circle distance | 888 km |
Traffic: to Jun 2026