Passengers
13,215
Nadi to Cairns, 12 months to Jun 2026
Nadi to Cairns
Fiji · 111 months of data from Dec 1990 · Cairns to Nadi
Both directions
27,720
including Cairns to Nadi
Flight time
4h 55m
45m longer than the return
Load factor
56%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026
13,215 passengers flew Nadi to Cairns in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 27,720 on the route in both directions. Traffic leans outbound: 14,505 departing against 13,215 arriving. Flights Nadi to Cairns run 56% full, against 62% coming back.
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
Dec 1990
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Latest complete year · also peak
1999
632 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Cairns; the ring marks the distance to Nadi.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Nadi to Cairns is 4h 55m gate to gate, over 3,366 km. Coming back takes 4h 10m — a difference of 45m, 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 Nadi to Cairns. These are the numbers you book under.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Mon, Thu and Sat (3 departures).
Fiji · 1 · Boeing 737
FJ971
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, 1990 to 2026
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
To Jun 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.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
To Jun 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 2,897 · Jul 2025 |
| Data coverage | Dec 1990 – Jun 2026 (111 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Jun 2026 | 29 tonnes |
| Destination region | Fiji |
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.