Passengers
31,449
Gold Coast to Wellington, 12 months to May 2026
Gold Coast to Wellington
New Zealand · 169 months of data from Feb 2005 · Wellington to Gold Coast
Both directions
62,353
including Wellington to Gold Coast
Flight time
3h 15m
30m shorter than the return
Load factor
95%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to May 2026
31,449 passengers flew Gold Coast to Wellington in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 62,353 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 95% full, much the same in both directions.
The route
Distances are true from Gold Coast; the ring marks the distance to Wellington.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Gold Coast to Wellington is 3h 15m gate to gate, over 2,425 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
1 flight number currently scheduled from Gold Coast to Wellington. These are the numbers you book under.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Wed, Fri and Sun (3 departures).
Jetstar · 1 · Airbus A320, Airbus A320 NEO
JQ167
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, 2005 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.
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 | 7,581 · Jan 2025 |
| Data coverage | Feb 2005 – May 2026 (169 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.