Australian Flight Data

Brisbane to Nadi

Fiji · 490 months of data from Jan 1985 · Nadi to Brisbane

Passengers
135,284
Brisbane to Nadi, 12 months to May 2026
Both directions
273,765
including Nadi to Brisbane
Flight time
3h 35m
45m shorter than the return
Load factor
85%
seats filled on this leg

Traffic: 12 months to May 2026

135,284 passengers flew Brisbane to Nadi in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 273,765 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 85% full, much the same in both directions. This route has been reported for 41 years.

The route

Brisbane Nadi

Distances are true from Brisbane; the ring marks the distance to Nadi.

How long is the flight?

Scheduled flight time from Brisbane to Nadi is 3h 35m gate to gate, over 2,713 km. Coming back takes 4h 20m — a difference of 45m, so this direction is the quicker 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

3 flight numbers currently scheduled from Brisbane to Nadi. These are the numbers you book under.

Scheduled every day this week — 15 departures in all.

Fiji · 2 · Boeing 737, Airbus A330-200, Airbus A350-900, Boeing 737-800

FJ920 · FJ922

Virgin Australia · 1 · Boeing 737, Boeing 737-800 (winglets), Boeing 737-8MAX

VA175

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

013,54627,091 May 2025Nov 2025May 2026
013,54627,091Omicron wave hits crew availability — Jan 2022 Bonza launches on leisure routes — Nov 2023 Bonza collapses after 15 months — Mar 2024 Rex enters administration and exits the trunk routes — Aug 2024 Cyclone Alfred closes south-east Queensland airports — Mar 2025 Jun 2021Dec 2023May 2026
013,54627,091Tigerair Australia stops flying — Feb 2020 COVID-19 border closures begin — Mar 2020 The deepest month: domestic traffic falls 96% — Apr 2020 Rex enters the trunk routes with jets — Mar 2021 Omicron wave hits crew availability — Jan 2022 Bonza launches on leisure routes — Nov 2023 Bonza collapses after 15 months — Mar 2024 Rex enters administration and exits the trunk routes — Aug 2024 Cyclone Alfred closes south-east Queensland airports — Mar 2025 May 2016Sep 2021May 2026
013,54627,091The pilots' dispute grounds domestic aviation — Aug 1989 Domestic deregulation ends the Two Airline Policy — Oct 1990 Virgin Blue launches — Aug 2000 Ansett Australia collapses — Sep 2001 Jetstar launches — May 2004 OzJet's all-business experiment ends within months — Jan 2006 Tiger Airways Australia enters the market — Apr 2008 Volcanic ash cloud disrupts southern Australia — Jun 2011 Qantas grounds its entire fleet — Oct 2011 Skywest becomes Virgin Australia Regional Airlines — May 2013 Tigerair Australia stops flying — Feb 2020 COVID-19 border closures begin — Mar 2020 The deepest month: domestic traffic falls 96% — Apr 2020 Rex enters the trunk routes with jets — Mar 2021 Omicron wave hits crew availability — Jan 2022 Bonza launches on leisure routes — Nov 2023 Bonza collapses after 15 months — Mar 2024 Rex enters administration and exits the trunk routes — Aug 2024 Cyclone Alfred closes south-east Queensland airports — Mar 2025 Jan 1985Jun 2005May 2026

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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.

80%87%94% May 2025Nov 2025May 2026
10%53%96% Jun 2021Jan 2024May 2026
1%48%96% May 2016Aug 2021May 2026
1%48%96% Sep 2003May 2015May 2026

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.

J: 1.03× the annual average J F: 0.67× the annual average F M: 0.84× the annual average M A: 0.99× the annual average A M: 0.98× the annual average M J: 0.99× the annual average J J: 1.05× the annual average J A: 1.00× the annual average A S: 1.11× the annual average S O: 1.10× the annual average O N: 1.03× the annual average N D: 1.21× the annual average D

Freight

Tonnes of air freight carried on this route — a dimension the domestic data does not have at all.

082164 May 2025Nov 2025May 2026
082164 Jun 2021Dec 2023May 2026
082164 May 2016Sep 2021May 2026
082164 Jan 1985Jun 2005May 2026

To May 2026

The route in numbers

Busiest month on record27,091 · Dec 2025
Data coverageJan 1985 – May 2026 (490 months)
Freight, 12 months to May 20261,369 tonnes
Destination regionFiji

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.

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