Launceston to Sydney

LST → SYD · 914 km · 107 flights a month · Sydney to Launceston

Punctuality: 12 months to Aug 2026

Flights between Launceston and Sydney carried 30,380 passengers in both directions in Jul 2026, ranking 37th of the 61 routes with reported traffic that month. Over the 12 months to Aug 2026, 1.6% of flights from Launceston to Sydney were cancelled, below the national average of 2.0%. In the published records for Sep 2025–Aug 2026, Jetstar recorded 2.1% cancellations across 533 scheduled flights, compared with Virgin Australia's 0.6% across 363 scheduled flights in this direction. These are observed samples, not a forecast. Direction matters here: Sydney→Launceston departs on time 74.2% of the time against 71.0% coming back. Traffic now runs 23% above its 2019 average. The route is busiest in January and quietest in June.

The route

914 km great-circle · 1h 37m 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.

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.

A 3.2 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, 1994 to 2026

Traffic: to Jul 2026 · Marks show industry events

Passenger figures count both directions together — Launceston to Sydney and back. The published statistics do not separate them. Cancellations, punctuality and flight numbers above are for Launceston to Sydney 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 Launceston to Sydney is 1h 37m gate to gate, over 914 km. The return leg is scheduled at 1h 50m — the two directions differ by 13m, so this way round is the quicker one.

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

4 flight numbers currently scheduled from Launceston to Sydney. These are the numbers you book under — some are operated by a regional partner such as QantasLink or Alliance.

Typical flight time 1h 37m.

Scheduled every day this week — 36 departures in all.

Virgin Australia · 2 · Boeing 737-800

VA1093 · VA1095

Jetstar · 1 · Airbus A320

JQ746

Qantas · 1 · Airbus A220-300

QF1534

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

Traffic: to Jul 2026

Other routes through Launceston and Sydney

From Sydney

• Melbourne ↔ Sydney
• Brisbane ↔ Sydney
• Gold Coast ↔ Sydney
• Adelaide ↔ Sydney
• Perth ↔ Sydney
• Cairns ↔ Sydney

Airport data

• Launceston Airport
• Sydney Airport