Passengers
30,859
Sunshine Coast to Auckland, 12 months to Jun 2026
Sunshine Coast to Auckland
New Zealand · 71 months of data from Jul 2012 · Auckland to Sunshine Coast
Both directions
59,533
including Auckland to Sunshine Coast
Flight time
3h 5m
35m shorter than the return
Load factor
79%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026
30,859 passengers flew Sunshine Coast to Auckland in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 59,533 on the route in both directions. Traffic leans outbound: 30,859 departing against 28,674 arriving. Flights run about 79% 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
Jul 2012
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Latest complete year · also peak
2025
55,907 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Sunshine Coast; the ring marks the distance to Auckland.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Sunshine Coast to Auckland is 3h 5m gate to gate, over 2,348 km. Coming back takes 3h 40m — a difference of 35m, 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
2 flight numbers currently scheduled from Sunshine Coast to Auckland. These are the numbers you book under.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Tue, Wed, Fri and Sun (5 departures).
Jetstar · 1 · Airbus A320
JQ175
Air New Zealand · 1 · Airbus A320, Airbus A321 NEO
NZ168
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, 2012 to 2026
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
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.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
To Jun 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 7,682 · Sep 2025 |
| Data coverage | Jul 2012 – Jun 2026 (71 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Jun 2026 | 2 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.