Cancelled
0.7%
1.4 pts better than average
Melbourne to Hobart
MEL → HBA · 618 km · 409 flights a month · Hobart to Melbourne
On time (departures)
70.5%
national 78.2%
Flight time
1h 20m
scheduled, gate to gate
Latest month
0.5%
Jul 2026 cancelled
Airlines
4
on this direction
Punctuality: 12 months to Jul 2026
Flights between Melbourne and Hobart carried 111,578 passengers in both directions in Jun 2026, ranking 11th of the 62 routes with reported traffic that month. Over the 12 months to Jul 2026, 0.7% of flights from Melbourne to Hobart were cancelled, well below the national average of 2.1%. Traffic is still running at 88.1% of its 2019 average. The route is busiest in December and quietest in August.
The route
618 km great-circle · 1h 20m typical
Punctuality by airline
12 months to Jul 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jetstar | 2,009 | 0.6% | 65.0% | |
| Virgin Australia | Virgin Australia Group | 1,519 | 0.1% | 75.7% |
| QantasLink | Qantas Group | 1,191 | 1.9% | 70.6% |
| Qantas | Qantas Group | 186 | 0.0% | 86.0% |
Cancellations over time
Punctuality data begins Nov 2003 and runs to Jul 2026. Gaps are months with no reported services, not missing data.
Passengers, 1984 to 2026
Traffic: to Jun 2026 · Marks show industry events
Passenger figures count both directions together — Melbourne to Hobart and back. The published statistics do not separate them. Cancellations, punctuality and flight numbers above are for Melbourne to Hobart 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 Melbourne to Hobart is 1h 20m gate to gate, over 618 km. The return leg is scheduled at much the same, 1h 25m.
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
16 flight numbers currently scheduled from Melbourne to Hobart. These are the numbers you book under — some are operated by a regional partner such as QantasLink or Alliance.
Typical flight time 1h 20m.
Scheduled every day this week — 88 departures in all.
Qantas · 6 · Airbus A220-300, Boeing 737-800, Airbus A220
QF1003 · QF1005 · QF1291 · QF1293 · QF1295 · QF1297
Jetstar · 5 · Airbus A320, Airbus A321
JQ701 · JQ703 · JQ707 · JQ709 · JQ713
Virgin Australia · 5 · Boeing 737-800, Boeing 737-700
VA1316 · VA1320 · VA1324 · VA1330 · VA1334
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 | 166,385 · Jan 2020 |
| Pandemic low | 1,297 · Oct 2021 |
| Traffic vs 2019 average | 88.1% |
| Load factor, Jun 2026 | 83.0% |
| Aircraft trips, Jun 2026 | 781 |
| Great-circle distance | 618 km |
Traffic: to Jun 2026