Passengers
32,540
Gold Coast to Queenstown, 12 months to May 2026
Gold Coast to Queenstown
New Zealand · 125 months of data from Dec 2010 · Queenstown to Gold Coast
Both directions
65,437
including Queenstown to Gold Coast
Flight time
3h 20m
15m shorter than the return
Load factor
86%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to May 2026
32,540 passengers flew Gold Coast to Queenstown in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 65,437 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 86% full, much the same in both directions.
The route
Distances are true from Gold Coast; the ring marks the distance to Queenstown.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Gold Coast to Queenstown is 3h 20m gate to gate, over 2,306 km. Coming back takes 3h 35m — a difference of 15m, 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 Queenstown. 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
JQ193
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, 2010 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
When is this route busiest?
Average passengers by calendar month over the last ten years, relative to the annual average.
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 6,389 · Sep 2025 |
| Data coverage | Dec 2010 – May 2026 (125 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.