Passengers
34,494
Rarotonga to Sydney, 12 months to May 2026
Rarotonga to Sydney
Cook Islands · 240 months of data from Aug 1986 · Sydney to Rarotonga
Both directions
69,077
including Sydney to Rarotonga
Flight time
7h 35m
1h 45m longer than the return
Load factor
67%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to May 2026
34,494 passengers flew Rarotonga to Sydney in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 69,077 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 67% full, much the same in both directions. This route has been reported for 20 years.
The route
Distances are true from Sydney; the ring marks the distance to Rarotonga.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Rarotonga to Sydney is 7h 35m gate to gate, over 4,992 km. Coming back takes 5h 50m — a difference of 1h 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 Rarotonga to Sydney. These are the numbers you book under.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Mon, Wed, Thu and Sat (4 departures).
Jetstar · 1 · Airbus A320
JQ112
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, 1986 to 2026
To May 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
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.
To May 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 7,229 · Oct 2025 |
| Data coverage | Aug 1986 – May 2026 (240 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to May 2026 | 0 tonnes |
| Destination region | Cook Islands |
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.