Cancelled
0.2%
1.9 pts better than average
Brisbane to Launceston
BNE → LST · 1,664 km · 42 flights a month · Launceston to Brisbane
On time (departures)
83.1%
national 78.2%
Flight time
2h 37m
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 Launceston carried 11,041 passengers in both directions in Jun 2026, ranking 57th of the 62 routes with reported traffic that month. Over the 12 months to Jul 2026, 0.2% of flights from Brisbane to Launceston were cancelled, well below the national average of 2.1%. Direction matters here: Brisbane→Launceston departs on time 83.1% of the time against 74.0% coming back. The route is busiest in December and quietest in August.
The route
1,664 km great-circle · 2h 37m 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jetstar | 301 | 0.0% | 83.7% | |
| Virgin Australia | Virgin Australia Group | 176 | 0.0% | 82.4% |
| QantasLink | Qantas Group | 27 | 3.7% | 80.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brisbane → Launceston | 83.1% | 0.2% | 504 |
| Launceston → Brisbane | 74.0% | 0.4% | 502 |
A 9.1 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, 2020 to 2026
Traffic: to Jun 2026 · Marks show industry events
Passenger figures count both directions together — Brisbane to Launceston and back. The published statistics do not separate them. Cancellations, punctuality and flight numbers above are for Brisbane to Launceston 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 Launceston is 2h 37m gate to gate, over 1,664 km. The return leg is scheduled at much the same, 2h 30m.
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
3 flight numbers currently scheduled from Brisbane to Launceston. These are the numbers you book under — some are operated by a regional partner such as QantasLink or Alliance.
Typical flight time 2h 37m.
Scheduled every day this week — 11 departures in all.
Jetstar · 1 · Airbus A320, Airbus A320-200
JQ753
Qantas · 1 · Airbus A320-200
QF5753
Virgin Australia · 1 · Boeing 737-800, Boeing 737-800 (winglets)
VA1641
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 | 20,043 · Dec 2021 |
| Pandemic low | 8,601 · Jul 2021 |
| Load factor, Jun 2026 | 91.4% |
| Aircraft trips, Jun 2026 | 64 |
| Great-circle distance | 1,664 km |
Traffic: to Jun 2026