Sydney to Coffs Harbour

SYD → CFS · 443 km · 187 flights a month · Coffs Harbour to Sydney

Punctuality: 12 months to Jul 2026

Flights between Sydney and Coffs Harbour carried 17,841 passengers in both directions in Jun 2026, ranking 41st of the 62 routes with reported traffic that month. Over the 12 months to Jul 2026, 2.5% of flights from Sydney to Coffs Harbour were cancelled, above the national average of 2.1%. Which airline you fly matters: QantasLink cancelled 3.8% of its flights in this direction, 5.8× the rate of Rex Airlines at 0.7%. Direction matters here: Coffs Harbour→Sydney departs on time 73.2% of the time against 68.0% coming back. Traffic is still running at 63.3% of its 2019 average. The route is busiest in October and quietest in February.

The route

443 km great-circle · 1h 15m typical

Punctuality by airline

12 months to Jul 2026. Qantas and QantasLink are reported separately in the source data and are shown that way here — on many routes the difference between them is large.

Does the direction matter?

On this route it does. Delays build up through the day, so the aircraft flying the return leg is often already behind schedule. Cancellations, by contrast, usually take out both legs — which is why those figures barely differ.

A 5.2 point gap in on-time departures · 12 months to Jul 2026

Cancellations over time

Punctuality data begins Nov 2003 and runs to Jul 2026. Gaps are months with no reported services, not missing data.

Passengers, 1984 to 2026

Traffic: to Jun 2026 · Marks show industry events

Passenger figures count both directions together — Sydney to Coffs Harbour and back. The published statistics do not separate them. Cancellations, punctuality and flight numbers above are for Sydney to Coffs Harbour only.

When is this route busiest?

Average passengers by calendar month, relative to the annual average. 2020 and 2021 are excluded — those years were a structural break, not a season, and leaving them in shifts the apparent peak month on most routes. Higher months are typically the more expensive ones to fly.

Both directions combined, as published.

How long is the flight?

Scheduled flight time from Sydney to Coffs Harbour is 1h 15m gate to gate, over 443 km. The return leg is scheduled at much the same, 1h 20m.

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

9 flight numbers currently scheduled from Sydney to Coffs Harbour. These are the numbers you book under — some are operated by a regional partner such as QantasLink or Alliance.

Typical flight time 1h 15m.

Scheduled every day this week — 45 departures in all.

Qantas · 5 · Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 / DHC-8-400, De Havilland Canada DHC-8-400 Dash 8Q, Airbus A220-300

QF1532 · QF2102 · QF2104 · QF2106 · QF2108

Rex · 4 · Saab 340

ZL6416 · ZL6418 · ZL6436 · ZL6438

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

Traffic: to Jun 2026

Other routes through Coffs Harbour and Sydney

From Sydney

• Melbourne ↔ Sydney
• Brisbane ↔ Sydney
• Gold Coast ↔ Sydney
• Adelaide ↔ Sydney
• Perth ↔ Sydney
• Cairns ↔ Sydney

Airport data

• Sydney Airport