Cancelled
1.4%
0.7 pts better than average
Perth to Port Hedland
PER → PHE · 1,312 km · 204 flights a month · Port Hedland to Perth
On time (departures)
87.0%
national 78.2%
Flight time
2h 10m
10m shorter than the return
Latest month
1.4%
Jul 2026 cancelled
Airlines
4
on this direction
Punctuality: 12 months to Jul 2026
Flights between Perth and Port Hedland carried 42,289 passengers in both directions in Jun 2026, ranking 28th of the 62 routes with reported traffic that month. Over the 12 months to Jul 2026, 1.4% of flights from Perth to Port Hedland were cancelled, below the national average of 2.1%. Direction matters here: Perth→Port Hedland departs on time 87.0% of the time against 79.0% coming back. Traffic now runs 31% above its 2019 average.
The route
1,312 km great-circle · 2h 10m 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QantasLink | Qantas Group | 1,707 | 1.2% | 87.1% |
| Virgin Australia | Virgin Australia Group | 645 | 1.4% | 88.4% |
| Virgin Australia Regional Airlines | Virgin Australia Group | 73 | 2.7% | 73.2% |
| Qantas | Qantas Group | 22 | 4.5% | 90.5% |
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 → Port Hedland | 87.0% | 1.4% | 2,447 |
| Port Hedland → Perth | 79.0% | 2.0% | 2,442 |
A 8 point gap in on-time departures · 12 months to Jul 2026
Cancellations over time
Punctuality data begins Nov 2003 and runs to Jul 2026. Gaps are months with no reported services, not missing data.
Passengers, 1994 to 2026
Traffic: to Jun 2026 · Marks show industry events
Passenger figures count both directions together — Perth to Port Hedland and back. The published statistics do not separate them. Cancellations, punctuality and flight numbers above are for Perth to Port Hedland 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 Perth to Port Hedland is 2h 10m gate to gate, over 1,312 km. The return leg is scheduled at 2h 20m — the two directions differ by 10m, 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
13 flight numbers currently scheduled from Perth to Port Hedland. These are the numbers you book under — some are operated by a regional partner such as QantasLink or Alliance.
Typical flight time 2h 10m.
Scheduled every day this week — 50 departures in all.
Qantas · 9 · Airbus A320, Airbus A319, Boeing 737-800, Fokker 100
QF1206 · QF1636 · QF1638 · QF1640 · QF1642 · QF1644 · QF1646 · QF1648 · QF1650
Virgin Australia · 4 · Boeing 737-700, Boeing 737-800, Boeing 737
VA1837 · VA1841 · VA1845 · VA1847
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 | 47,343 · Aug 2012 |
| Pandemic low | 2,877 · May 2020 |
| Traffic vs 2019 average | 131.1% |
| Load factor, Jun 2026 | 60.7% |
| Aircraft trips, Jun 2026 | 412 |
| Great-circle distance | 1,312 km |
Traffic: to Jun 2026