Gold Coast to Melbourne

MEL → OOL · 1,330 km · 526 flights a month · Melbourne to Gold Coast

Punctuality: 12 months to Jul 2026

Flights between Gold Coast and Melbourne carried 149,920 passengers in both directions in Jun 2026, ranking 6th of the 62 routes with reported traffic that month. Over the 12 months to Jul 2026, 1.2% of flights from Gold Coast to Melbourne were cancelled, well below the national average of 2.1%. Which airline you fly matters: Jetstar cancelled 2.4% of its flights in this direction, while Qantas cancelled none. Direction matters here: Melbourne→Gold Coast departs on time 74.4% of the time against 70.0% coming back. The route is busiest in January and quietest in February.

The route

1,330 km great-circle · 2h 25m 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.

Does the direction matter?

On this route it does. Delays build up through the day, so the aircraft flying the return leg is often already behind schedule. Cancellations, by contrast, usually take out both legs — which is why those figures barely differ.

A 4.4 point gap in on-time departures · 12 months to Jul 2026

Cancellations over time

Punctuality data begins Nov 2003 and runs to Jul 2026. Gaps are months with no reported services, not missing data.

Passengers, 1984 to 2026

Traffic: to Jun 2026 · Marks show industry events

Passenger figures count both directions together — Gold Coast to Melbourne and back. The published statistics do not separate them. Cancellations, punctuality and flight numbers above are for Gold Coast to Melbourne 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 Melbourne is 2h 25m gate to gate, over 1,330 km. The return leg is scheduled at 2h 5m — the two directions differ by 20m, 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

25 flight numbers currently scheduled from Gold Coast to Melbourne. These are the numbers you book under — some are operated by a regional partner such as QantasLink or Alliance.

Typical flight time 2h 25m.

Scheduled every day this week — 107 departures in all.

Qantas · 9 · Airbus A220-300, Airbus A320 (Sharklets), Airbus A321, Airbus A320

QF1571 · QF1573 · QF1575 · QF5435 · QF5437 · QF5441 · QF5445 · QF5449 · QF5451

Jetstar · 8 · Airbus A320, Airbus A320 (Sharklets), Airbus A321, Airbus A321-200 (Sharklets)

JQ431 · JQ433 · JQ435 · JQ437 · JQ441 · JQ445 · JQ449 · JQ451

Virgin Australia · 8 · Boeing 737-800, Boeing 737, Boeing 737 MAX 8

VA726 · VA736 · VA738 · VA740 · VA742 · VA744 · VA746 · VA750

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

Traffic: to Jun 2026

Other routes through Gold Coast and Melbourne

From Gold Coast

• Gold Coast ↔ Sydney

From Melbourne

• Melbourne ↔ Sydney
• Brisbane ↔ Melbourne
• Adelaide ↔ Melbourne
• Melbourne ↔ Perth
• Hobart ↔ Melbourne

Airport data

• Gold Coast Airport
• Melbourne Airport