Cancelled
3.3%
1.3 pts worse than average
Gladstone to Brisbane
GLT → BNE · 434 km · 162 flights a month · Brisbane to Gladstone
On time (departures)
85.9%
national 78.8%
Flight time
1h 12m
scheduled, gate to gate
Latest month
0.6%
Aug 2026 cancelled
Airlines
2
on this direction
Punctuality: 12 months to Aug 2026
Flights between Gladstone and Brisbane carried 19,226 passengers in both directions in Jul 2026, ranking 42nd of the 61 routes with reported traffic that month. Over the 12 months to Aug 2026, 3.3% of flights from Gladstone to Brisbane were cancelled, well above the national average of 2.0%. In the published records for Sep 2025–Aug 2026, QantasLink recorded 4.1% cancellations across 1,530 scheduled flights, compared with Virgin Australia's 0.2% across 417 scheduled flights in this direction. These are observed samples, not a forecast. Traffic is still running at 85.4% of its 2019 average. The route is busiest in August and quietest in January.
The route
434 km great-circle · 1h 12m typical
Punctuality by airline
12 months to Aug 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 | 1,530 | 4.1% | 84.6% |
| Virgin Australia | Virgin Australia Group | 417 | 0.2% | 90.4% |
Cancellations over time
Punctuality data begins Nov 2003 and runs to Aug 2026. Gaps are months with no reported services, not missing data.
Passengers, 2011 to 2026
Traffic: to Jul 2026 · Marks show industry events
Passenger figures count both directions together — Gladstone to Brisbane and back. The published statistics do not separate them. Cancellations, punctuality and flight numbers above are for Gladstone 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 Gladstone to Brisbane is 1h 12m gate to gate, over 434 km. The return leg is scheduled at much the same, 1h 15m.
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
14 flight numbers currently scheduled from Gladstone 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 12m.
Scheduled every day this week — 38 departures in all.
Qantas · 11 · Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 / DHC-8-400, Embraer 190
QF1917 · QF1919 · QF1921 · QF1923 · QF1995 · QF2329 · QF2331 · QF2333 · QF2335 · QF2337 · QF2339
Virgin Australia · 3 · Fokker 70
VA1710 · VA1712 · VA1720
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 | 44,118 · Oct 2013 |
| Pandemic low | 1,015 · Apr 2020 |
| Traffic vs 2019 average | 85.4% |
| Load factor, Jul 2026 | 69.5% |
| Aircraft trips, Jul 2026 | 333 |
| Great-circle distance | 434 km |
Traffic: to Jul 2026