Passengers
133,069
Perth to Auckland, 12 months to Jun 2026
Perth to Auckland
New Zealand · 487 months of data from Jan 1985 · Auckland to Perth
Both directions
267,707
including Auckland to Perth
Flight time
6h 10m
1h 15m shorter than the return
Load factor
83%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026
133,069 passengers flew Perth to Auckland in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 267,707 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 83% full, much the same in both directions. This route has been reported for 41 years.
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
Jan 1985
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Latest complete year · also peak
2025
234,428 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Perth; the ring marks the distance to Auckland.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Perth to Auckland is 6h 10m gate to gate, over 5,348 km. Coming back takes 7h 25m — a difference of 1h 15m, so this direction is the quicker 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
4 flight numbers currently scheduled from Perth to Auckland. These are the numbers you book under.
Scheduled every day this week — 14 departures in all.
Air New Zealand · 3 · Boeing 787-9, Boeing 787
NZ174 · NZ176 · NZ178
Qantas · 1 · Airbus A330-200
QF111
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, 1985 to 2026
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
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.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Load factor: seats data from 2009
When is this route busiest?
Average passengers by calendar month over the last ten years, relative to the annual average.
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.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
To Jun 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 29,165 · Jan 2026 |
| Data coverage | Jan 1985 – Jun 2026 (487 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Jun 2026 | 6,345 tonnes |
| 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.