Passengers
25,365
Hamilton to Gold Coast, 12 months to May 2026
Hamilton to Gold Coast
New Zealand · 157 months of data from Dec 1996 · Gold Coast to Hamilton
Both directions
51,317
including Gold Coast to Hamilton
Flight time
3h 50m
50m longer than the return
Load factor
87%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to May 2026
25,365 passengers flew Hamilton to Gold Coast in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 51,317 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 87% full, much the same in both directions.
The route
Distances are true from Gold Coast; the ring marks the distance to Hamilton.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Hamilton to Gold Coast is 3h 50m gate to gate, over 2,298 km. Coming back takes 3h — a difference of 50m, so this direction is the slower 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 Hamilton to Gold Coast. These are the numbers you book under.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Tue, Wed, Fri and Sun (4 departures).
Jetstar · 1 · Airbus A320
JQ164
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, 1996 to 2026
To May 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.
Load factor: seats data from 2009
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 | 5,597 · Apr 2026 |
| Data coverage | Dec 1996 – May 2026 (157 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.