Passengers
47,933
Gold Coast to Christchurch, 12 months to May 2026
Gold Coast to Christchurch
New Zealand · 262 months of data from Oct 2002 · Christchurch to Gold Coast
Both directions
96,507
including Christchurch to Gold Coast
Flight time
3h 15m
30m shorter than the return
Load factor
86%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to May 2026
47,933 passengers flew Gold Coast to Christchurch in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 96,507 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 86% full, much the same in both directions. This route has been reported for 22 years.
The route
Distances are true from Gold Coast; the ring marks the distance to Christchurch.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Gold Coast to Christchurch is 3h 15m gate to gate, over 2,407 km. Coming back takes 3h 45m — a difference of 30m, so this direction is the quicker 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
2 flight numbers currently scheduled from Gold Coast to Christchurch. These are the numbers you book under.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Tue, Thu and Sat (4 departures).
Jetstar · 1 · Airbus A320
JQ187
Air New Zealand · 1 · Airbus A320 NEO
NZ278
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, 2002 to 2026
To May 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.
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.
To May 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 12,259 · Sep 2025 |
| Data coverage | Oct 2002 – May 2026 (262 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to May 2026 | 6 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.