Cancelled
2.8%
0.7 pts worse than average
Emerald to Brisbane
EMD → BNE · 653 km · 144 flights a month · Brisbane to Emerald
On time (departures)
89.9%
national 78.2%
Flight time
1h 20m
10m shorter than the return
Latest month
3.4%
Jul 2026 cancelled
Airlines
2
on this direction
Punctuality: 12 months to Jul 2026
Flights between Emerald and Brisbane carried 16,484 passengers in both directions in Jun 2026, ranking 43rd of the 62 routes with reported traffic that month. Over the 12 months to Jul 2026, 2.8% of flights from Emerald to Brisbane were cancelled, above the national average of 2.1%. Which airline you fly matters: QantasLink cancelled 3.4% of its flights in this direction, while Virgin Australia cancelled none. Direction matters here: Emerald→Brisbane departs on time 89.9% of the time against 86.2% coming back. The route is busiest in October and quietest in January.
The route
653 km great-circle · 1h 20m 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QantasLink | Qantas Group | 1,413 | 3.4% | 90.0% |
| Virgin Australia | Virgin Australia Group | 313 | 0.0% | 89.5% |
Does the direction matter?
On this route it does. Delays build up through the day, so the aircraft flying the return leg is often already behind schedule. Cancellations, by contrast, usually take out both legs — which is why those figures barely differ.
| Direction | On time | Cancelled | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brisbane → Emerald | 86.2% | 2.4% | 1,728 |
| Emerald → Brisbane | 89.9% | 2.8% | 1,726 |
A 3.7 point gap in on-time departures · 12 months to Jul 2026
Cancellations over time
Punctuality data begins Nov 2003 and runs to Jul 2026. Gaps are months with no reported services, not missing data.
Passengers, 2012 to 2026
Traffic: to Jun 2026 · Marks show industry events
Passenger figures count both directions together — Emerald to Brisbane and back. The published statistics do not separate them. Cancellations, punctuality and flight numbers above are for Emerald to Brisbane 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 Emerald to Brisbane is 1h 20m gate to gate, over 653 km. The return leg is scheduled at 1h 30m — the two directions differ by 10m, so this way round is the quicker 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
10 flight numbers currently scheduled from Emerald to Brisbane. These are the numbers you book under — some are operated by a regional partner such as QantasLink or Alliance.
Typical flight time 1h 20m.
Scheduled every day this week — 32 departures in all.
Qantas · 8 · Embraer 190, Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 / DHC-8-400
QF1879 · QF1925 · QF1927 · QF1929 · QF1933 · QF2403 · QF2405 · QF2409
Virgin Australia · 2 · Fokker 70
VA1258 · VA1266
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 | 26,880 · Jul 2012 |
| Pandemic low | 7,676 · Jan 2021 |
| Traffic vs 2019 average | 91.2% |
| Load factor, Jun 2026 | 69.4% |
| Aircraft trips, Jun 2026 | 318 |
| Great-circle distance | 653 km |
Traffic: to Jun 2026