Cancelled
1.6%
0.4 pts better than average
Karratha to Perth
KTA → PER · 1,250 km · 264 flights a month · Perth to Karratha
On time (departures)
84.0%
national 78.8%
Flight time
2h 5m
scheduled, gate to gate
Latest month
1.1%
Aug 2026 cancelled
Airlines
4
on this direction
Punctuality: 12 months to Aug 2026
Flights between Karratha and Perth carried 67,980 passengers in both directions in Jul 2026, ranking 22nd of the 61 routes with reported traffic that month. Over the 12 months to Aug 2026, 1.6% of flights from Karratha to Perth were cancelled, below the national average of 2.0%. Direction matters here: Perth→Karratha departs on time 87.4% of the time against 84.0% coming back. Traffic now runs 56% above its 2019 average.
The route
1,250 km great-circle · 2h 5m typical
Punctuality by airline
12 months to Aug 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.
| Airline | Group | Flights | Cancelled | On time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QantasLink | Qantas Group | 2,080 | 2.0% | 82.6% |
| Virgin Australia | Virgin Australia Group | 905 | 1.0% | 89.6% |
| Qantas | Qantas Group | 100 | 1.0% | 79.8% |
| Virgin Australia Regional Airlines | Virgin Australia Group | 77 | 0.0% | 59.7% |
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.
| Direction | On time | Cancelled | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|
| Perth → Karratha | 87.4% | 0.8% | 3,165 |
| Karratha → Perth | 84.0% | 1.6% | 3,162 |
A 3.4 point gap in on-time departures · 12 months to Aug 2026
Cancellations over time
Punctuality data begins Nov 2003 and runs to Aug 2026. Gaps are months with no reported services, not missing data.
Passengers, 1984 to 2026
Traffic: to Jul 2026 · Marks show industry events
Passenger figures count both directions together — Karratha to Perth and back. The published statistics do not separate them. Cancellations, punctuality and flight numbers above are for Karratha to Perth 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 Karratha to Perth is 2h 5m gate to gate, over 1,250 km. The return leg is scheduled at much the same, 2h 5m.
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
21 flight numbers currently scheduled from Karratha to Perth. These are the numbers you book under — some are operated by a regional partner such as QantasLink or Alliance.
Typical flight time 2h 5m.
Scheduled every day this week — 70 departures in all.
Qantas · 13 · Airbus A320, Airbus A319, Fokker 100, Boeing 737-800
QF1217 · QF1219 · QF1721 · QF1723 · QF1725 · QF1727 · QF1729 · QF1731 · QF1733 · QF1735 · QF1737 · QF1739 · QF6307
Virgin Australia · 8 · Boeing 737-800, Boeing 737-700, Boeing 737
VA1724 · VA1726 · VA1728 · VA1730 · VA1732 · VA2546 · VA9466 · VA9470
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
| Busiest month on record | 69,713 · Oct 2012 |
| Pandemic low | 2,522 · May 2020 |
| Traffic vs 2019 average | 155.7% |
| Load factor, Jul 2026 | 70.6% |
| Aircraft trips, Jul 2026 | 582 |
| Great-circle distance | 1,250 km |
Traffic: to Jul 2026