Flight time
3h 20m
Sydney to Alice Springs, scheduled
Sydney to Alice Springs
SYD → ASP · 2,022 km · Alice Springs to Sydney
Distance
2,022 km
great-circle
Punctuality for this route is no longer reported, though historical figures remain below.
The route
2,022 km great-circle · 3h 20m typical
Cancellations over time
Punctuality data begins Nov 2003 and runs to Jul 2014. Gaps are months with no reported services, not missing data.
Punctuality is no longer reported for this route. The historical series above ends Jul 2014.
Passengers, 1984 to 2026
Not enough data to chart.
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Traffic: to Jun 2026 · Marks show industry events
Passenger figures count both directions together — Sydney to Alice Springs and back. The published statistics do not separate them. Cancellations, punctuality and flight numbers above are for Sydney to Alice Springs only.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Sydney to Alice Springs is 3h 20m gate to gate, over 2,022 km. The return leg is scheduled at 2h 45m — the two directions differ by 35m, so this way round is the slower one.
A gap that size is normally the wind. Australia sits under strong westerly winds aloft, so eastbound flights ride them and westbound flights push into them — the same aircraft, the same distance, a different flight duration each way.
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
1 flight number currently scheduled from Sydney to Alice Springs. These are the numbers you book under — some are operated by a regional partner such as QantasLink or Alliance.
The route still operates, but it is no longer large enough to appear in the published passenger statistics — those end Jul 2014. The timetable below is current.
Typical flight time 3h 20m.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri and Sun (6 departures).
Qantas · 1 · Boeing 737-800
QF790
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 | 17,337 · Oct 1994 |
| Great-circle distance | 2,022 km |
Traffic: to Jun 2026