Passengers
47,274
Gold Coast to Christchurch, 12 months to Jun 2026
Gold Coast to Christchurch
New Zealand · 263 months of data from Oct 2002 · Christchurch to Gold Coast
Both directions
94,641
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 Jun 2026
47,274 passengers flew Gold Coast to Christchurch in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 94,641 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.
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
Oct 2002
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Latest complete year · also peak
2025
104,175 passengers
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
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 | 12,259 · Sep 2025 |
| Data coverage | Oct 2002 – Jun 2026 (263 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Jun 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.