Passengers
33,399
Queenstown to Gold Coast, 12 months to Jun 2026
Queenstown to Gold Coast
New Zealand · 126 months of data from Dec 2010 · Gold Coast to Queenstown
Both directions
66,475
including Gold Coast to Queenstown
Flight time
3h 35m
15m longer than the return
Load factor
88%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026
33,399 passengers flew Queenstown to Gold Coast in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 66,475 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 88% full, much the same in both directions.
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 2010
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Latest complete year · also peak
2025
59,533 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Gold Coast; the ring marks the distance to Queenstown.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Queenstown to Gold Coast is 3h 35m gate to gate, over 2,306 km. Coming back takes 3h 20m — a difference of 15m, 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
2 flight numbers currently scheduled from Queenstown to Gold Coast. These are the numbers you book under.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri and Sat (7 departures).
Jetstar · 2 · Airbus A320, Airbus A320 NEO
JQ192 · JQ194
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, 2010 to 2026
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
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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.
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 6,389 · Sep 2025 |
| Data coverage | Dec 2010 – Jun 2026 (126 months) |
| 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.