Passengers
132,990
Christchurch to Brisbane, 12 months to Jun 2026
Christchurch to Brisbane
New Zealand · 481 months of data from Jan 1985 · Brisbane to Christchurch
Both directions
263,157
including Brisbane to Christchurch
Flight time
4h 5m
35m longer than the return
Load factor
79%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026
132,990 passengers flew Christchurch to Brisbane in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 263,157 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 79% full, much the same in both directions. This route has been reported for 40 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
Jan 1985
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Peak complete year
2008
349,467 passengers
Latest complete year
2025
227,162 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Brisbane; the ring marks the distance to Christchurch.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Christchurch to Brisbane is 4h 5m gate to gate, over 2,498 km. Coming back takes 3h 30m — a difference of 35m, 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
3 flight numbers currently scheduled from Christchurch to Brisbane. These are the numbers you book under.
Scheduled every day this week — 16 departures in all.
Qantas · 2 · Boeing 737-800, Boeing 737-800 (winglets)
QF132 · QF134
Air New Zealand · 1 · Airbus A320, Airbus A321neo (Sharklets)
NZ205
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
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 | 34,870 · Aug 2009 |
| Data coverage | Jan 1985 – Jun 2026 (481 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Jun 2026 | 307 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.