Cancelled
1.4%
0.7 pts better than average
Brisbane to Townsville
BNE → TSV · 1,112 km · 368 flights a month · Townsville to Brisbane
On time (departures)
80.6%
national 78.2%
Flight time
2h 10m
15m longer than the return
Latest month
0.8%
Jul 2026 cancelled
Airlines
4
on this direction
Punctuality: 12 months to Jul 2026
Flights between Brisbane and Townsville carried 87,801 passengers in both directions in Jun 2026, ranking 12th of the 62 routes with reported traffic that month. Over the 12 months to Jul 2026, 1.4% of flights from Brisbane to Townsville were cancelled, below the national average of 2.1%. Which airline you fly matters: QantasLink cancelled 2.1% of its flights in this direction, 7.5× the rate of Qantas at 0.3%. The route is busiest in July and quietest in February.
The route
1,112 km great-circle · 2h 10m 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 | 1,650 | 0.9% | 84.4% |
| QantasLink | Qantas Group | 1,580 | 2.1% | 78.7% |
| Jetstar | 827 | 1.4% | 72.3% | |
| Qantas | Qantas Group | 354 | 0.3% | 91.2% |
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 Townsville and back. The published statistics do not separate them. Cancellations, punctuality and flight numbers above are for Brisbane to Townsville 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 Townsville is 2h 10m gate to gate, over 1,112 km. The return leg is scheduled at 1h 55m — 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
22 flight numbers currently scheduled from Brisbane to Townsville. These are the numbers you book under — some are operated by a regional partner such as QantasLink or Alliance.
Typical flight time 2h 10m.
Scheduled every day this week — 100 departures in all.
Qantas · 14 · Embraer 190, Boeing 737-800, Airbus A220-300, Boeing 737-800 (winglets)
QF750 · QF862 · QF864 · QF866 · QF1546 · QF1550 · QF1554 · QF1860 · QF1862 · QF1866 · QF1868 · QF1870 · QF5904 · QF5906
Virgin Australia · 5 · Boeing 737-800, Boeing 737-800 (winglets), Boeing 737-700, Boeing 737
VA383 · VA387 · VA391 · VA393 · VA397
Jetstar · 3 · Airbus A320, Airbus A320-200, Airbus A321 NEO, Boeing 737-700 (winglets)
JQ904 · JQ906 · JQ908
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 | 98,751 · Jul 2018 |
| Pandemic low | 4,193 · Apr 2020 |
| Traffic vs 2019 average | 95.7% |
| Load factor, Jun 2026 | 82.5% |
| Aircraft trips, Jun 2026 | 705 |
| Great-circle distance | 1,112 km |
Traffic: to Jun 2026