Australian Flight Data

Cairns to Denpasar

Indonesia · 265 months of data from Dec 1990 · Denpasar to Cairns

Passengers
37,954
Cairns to Denpasar, 12 months to Jun 2026
Both directions
75,750
including Denpasar to Cairns
Flight time
4h 45m
15m longer than the return
Load factor
84%
seats filled on this leg

Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026

37,954 passengers flew Cairns to Denpasar in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 75,750 on the route in both directions. Flights Cairns to Denpasar run 84% full, against 65% coming back. This route has been reported for 22 years.

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
Dec 1990
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Latest complete year · also peak
2025
93,211 passengers

The route

Cairns Denpasar

Distances are true from Cairns; the ring marks the distance to Denpasar.

How long is the flight?

Scheduled flight time from Cairns to Denpasar is 4h 45m gate to gate, over 3,436 km. Coming back takes 4h 30m — a difference of 15m, so this direction is the slower 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

1 flight number currently scheduled from Cairns to Denpasar. These are the numbers you book under.

Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Mon, Wed, Fri and Sun (4 departures).

Jetstar · 1 · Airbus A320

JQ90

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, 1990 to 2026

04,3768,751 Jun 2025Dec 2025Jun 2026
04,7489,495Bonza 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 2022Jun 2024Jun 2026

Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.

04,7489,495Tigerair 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 Delta lockdowns close the eastern states — Jul 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 Jun 2016Jun 2021Jun 2026

Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.

04,7489,495Virgin 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 Delta lockdowns close the eastern states — Jul 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 Dec 1990: 2Dec 1990Sep 2008Jun 2026

Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.

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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.

26%61%96% Jun 2025Dec 2025Jun 2026
26%61%96% May 2022Jun 2024Jun 2026

Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.

26%61%96% Jun 2016Jun 2021Jun 2026

Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.

4%50%96% Aug 2012Jul 2019Jun 2026

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.

J: 1.04× the annual average J F: 0.94× the annual average F M: 0.99× the annual average M A: 1.03× the annual average A M: 1.00× the annual average M J: 0.95× the annual average J J: 1.02× the annual average J A: 1.00× the annual average A S: 1.09× the annual average S O: 1.02× the annual average O N: 1.01× the annual average N D: 0.92× the annual average D

Freight

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

01530 Jun 2025Dec 2025Jun 2026
01530 May 2022Jun 2024Jun 2026

Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.

01530 Jun 2016Jun 2021Jun 2026

Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.

051102 Dec 1990: 0Dec 1990Sep 2008Jun 2026

Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.

To Jun 2026

The route in numbers

Busiest month on record9,495 · Jan 2025
Data coverageDec 1990 – Jun 2026 (265 months)
Freight, 12 months to Jun 202662 tonnes
Destination regionIndonesia

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.

Related routes

From Cairns

To Denpasar

Airport data