Passengers
30,892
Hamilton to Sydney, 12 months to Jun 2026
Hamilton to Sydney
New Zealand · 186 months of data from Oct 1995 · Sydney to Hamilton
Both directions
60,788
including Sydney to Hamilton
Flight time
3h 35m
30m longer than the return
Load factor
86%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026
30,892 passengers flew Hamilton to Sydney in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 60,788 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 86% full, much the same in both directions.
Passenger history milestones
Recorded milestones use this city-pair passenger series, with both directions combined. A first positive record is not a service-launch date; complete calendar years require all twelve observed, non-null months.
First positive passenger record
Oct 1995
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Peak complete year
2006
31,882 passengers
Latest complete year
2008
23,471 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Sydney; the ring marks the distance to Hamilton.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Hamilton to Sydney is 3h 35m gate to gate, over 2,217 km. Coming back takes 3h 5m — a difference of 30m, 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 Sydney. These are the numbers you book under.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Thu and Sat (2 departures).
Jetstar · 1 · Airbus A320
JQ166
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, 1995 to 2026
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
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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.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
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.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
To Jun 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 6,853 · Mar 1996 |
| Data coverage | Oct 1995 – Jun 2026 (186 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.