Passengers
665,300
Sydney to Auckland, 12 months to May 2026
Sydney to Auckland
New Zealand · 497 months of data from Jan 1985 · Auckland to Sydney
Both directions
1,330,551
including Auckland to Sydney
Flight time
3h 5m
45m shorter than the return
At least
76%
full on this leg — a conservative floor
Traffic: 12 months to May 2026
665,300 passengers flew Sydney to Auckland in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 1,330,551 on the route in both directions. This route has been reported for 41 years.
The route
Distances are true from Sydney; the ring marks the distance to Auckland.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Sydney to Auckland is 3h 5m gate to gate, over 2,164 km. Coming back takes 3h 50m — a difference of 45m, 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
18 flight numbers currently scheduled from Sydney to Auckland. These are the numbers you book under.
Scheduled every day this week — 86 departures in all.
Qantas · 9 · Boeing 737-800, Airbus A320, Airbus A330-200, Boeing 787-9
QF3 · QF141 · QF143 · QF145 · QF147 · QF149 · QF5514 · QF5516 · QF5521
Air New Zealand · 4 · Airbus A320, Boeing 777, Boeing 777-300ER, Boeing 787
NZ102 · NZ104 · NZ110 · NZ112
Jetstar · 3 · Airbus A320, Airbus A321 NEO
JQ201 · JQ203 · JQ209
LATAM · 2 · Boeing 737-800
LA4897 · LA5907
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, 1985 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 | 162,036 · Jan 2016 |
| Data coverage | Jan 1985 – May 2026 (497 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to May 2026 | 33,054 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.