Passengers
101,645
Brisbane to Queenstown, 12 months to Jun 2026
Brisbane to Queenstown
New Zealand · 229 months of data from Jul 1995 · Queenstown to Brisbane
Both directions
195,030
including Queenstown to Brisbane
Flight time
3h 30m
20m shorter than the return
Load factor
83%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026
101,645 passengers flew Brisbane to Queenstown in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 195,030 on the route in both directions. Traffic leans outbound: 101,645 departing against 93,385 arriving. Flights run about 83% full, much the same in both directions.
Passenger history milestones
Recorded milestones use this city-pair passenger series, with both directions combined. A first positive record is not a service-launch date; complete calendar years require all twelve observed, non-null months.
First positive passenger record
Jul 1995
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Latest complete year · also peak
2025
184,158 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Brisbane; the ring marks the distance to Queenstown.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Brisbane to Queenstown is 3h 30m gate to gate, over 2,400 km. Coming back takes 3h 50m — a difference of 20m, 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
4 flight numbers currently scheduled from Brisbane to Queenstown. These are the numbers you book under.
Scheduled every day this week — 17 departures in all.
Qantas · 2 · Boeing 737-800, Airbus A320-200
QF185 · QF5855
Virgin Australia · 2 · Boeing 737, Boeing 737-800, Boeing 737-800 (winglets), Boeing 737 MAX 8
VA115 · VA119
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, 1995 to 2026
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
To Jun 2026 · Marks show industry events
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.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
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.
Freight
Tonnes of air freight carried on this route — a dimension the domestic data does not have at all.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
To Jun 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 23,778 · Aug 2025 |
| Data coverage | Jul 1995 – Jun 2026 (229 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Jun 2026 | 0 tonnes |
| Destination region | New Zealand |
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.