Cancelled
0.0%
2.1 pts better than average
Gold Coast to Canberra
OOL → CBR · 896 km · 46 flights a month · Canberra to Gold Coast
On time (departures)
81.8%
national 78.2%
Flight time
1h 42m
10m longer than the return
Latest month
0.0%
Jul 2026 cancelled
Airlines
2
on this direction
Punctuality: 12 months to Jul 2026
Flights between Gold Coast and Canberra carried 14,215 passengers in both directions in Jun 2026, ranking 49th of the 62 routes with reported traffic that month. Over the 12 months to Jul 2026, 0.0% of flights from Gold Coast to Canberra were cancelled, well below the national average of 2.1%. The route is busiest in October and quietest in February.
The route
896 km great-circle · 1h 42m 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Virgin Australia | Virgin Australia Group | 364 | 0.0% | 78.8% |
| Jetstar | 184 | 0.0% | 87.5% |
Cancellations over time
Punctuality data begins Nov 2003 and runs to Jul 2026. Gaps are months with no reported services, not missing data.
Passengers, 2020 to 2026
Traffic: to Jun 2026 · Marks show industry events
Passenger figures count both directions together — Gold Coast to Canberra and back. The published statistics do not separate them. Cancellations, punctuality and flight numbers above are for Gold Coast to Canberra 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 Gold Coast to Canberra is 1h 42m gate to gate, over 896 km. The return leg is scheduled at 1h 32m — the two directions differ by 10m, so this way round is the slower 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
2 flight numbers currently scheduled from Gold Coast to Canberra. These are the numbers you book under — some are operated by a regional partner such as QantasLink or Alliance.
Typical flight time 1h 42m.
Scheduled every day this week — 12 departures in all.
Jetstar · 1 · Airbus A320
JQ650
Virgin Australia · 1 · Boeing 737-800
VA1690
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 | 16,991 · Apr 2024 |
| Pandemic low | 9,415 · Jul 2021 |
| Load factor, Jun 2026 | 90.3% |
| Aircraft trips, Jun 2026 | 86 |
| Great-circle distance | 896 km |
Traffic: to Jun 2026