Passengers
22,249
Cairns to Christchurch, 12 months to Jun 2026
Cairns to Christchurch
New Zealand · 193 months of data from Mar 1988 · Christchurch to Cairns
Both directions
41,152
including Christchurch to Cairns
Load factor
77%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026
22,249 passengers flew Cairns to Christchurch in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 41,152 on the route in both directions. Traffic leans outbound: 22,249 departing against 18,903 arriving. Flights Cairns to Christchurch run 77% full, against 67% coming back.
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
Mar 1988
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Peak complete year
1991
12,820 passengers
Latest complete year
2002
3,248 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Cairns; the ring marks the distance to Christchurch.
Flight numbers on this route
1 flight number currently scheduled from Cairns to Christchurch. These are the numbers you book under.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Thu (1 departure).
Jetstar · 1 · Airbus A320
JQ135
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, 1988 to 2026
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.
Load factor: seats data from 2009
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.
To Jun 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 3,922 · Mar 2026 |
| Data coverage | Mar 1988 – Jun 2026 (193 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.