Passengers
22,350
Gold Coast to Dunedin, 12 months to May 2026
Gold Coast to Dunedin
New Zealand · 59 months of data from Mar 2002 · Dunedin to Gold Coast
Both directions
44,154
including Dunedin to Gold Coast
Flight time
3h 20m
20m shorter than the return
Load factor
77%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to May 2026
22,350 passengers flew Gold Coast to Dunedin in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 44,154 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 77% full, much the same in both directions.
The route
Distances are true from Gold Coast; the ring marks the distance to Dunedin.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Gold Coast to Dunedin is 3h 20m gate to gate, over 2,457 km. Coming back takes 3h 40m — a difference of 20m, 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
1 flight number currently scheduled from Gold Coast to Dunedin. These are the numbers you book under.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Mon, Tue, Thu and Sat (4 departures).
Jetstar · 1 · Airbus A320, Airbus A320 NEO
JQ189
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
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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
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 4,739 · Apr 2026 |
| Data coverage | Mar 2002 – May 2026 (59 months) |
| 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.