Cancelled
3.8%
1.8 pts worse than average
Sydney to Dubbo
SYD → DBO · 310 km · 204 flights a month · Dubbo to Sydney
On time (departures)
70.7%
national 78.8%
Flight time
1h 5m
scheduled, gate to gate
Latest month
1.8%
Aug 2026 cancelled
Airlines
2
on this direction
Punctuality: 12 months to Aug 2026
Flights between Sydney and Dubbo carried 16,917 passengers in both directions in Jul 2026, ranking 47th of the 61 routes with reported traffic that month. Over the 12 months to Aug 2026, 3.8% of flights from Sydney to Dubbo were cancelled, well above the national average of 2.0%. In the published records for Sep 2025–Aug 2026, Rex Airlines recorded 6.3% cancellations across 1,170 scheduled flights, compared with QantasLink's 1.5% across 1,281 scheduled flights in this direction. These are observed samples, not a forecast. Direction matters here: Dubbo→Sydney departs on time 74.4% of the time against 70.7% coming back. The route is busiest in October and quietest in January.
The route
310 km great-circle · 1h 5m typical
Punctuality by airline
12 months to Aug 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.
| Airline | Group | Flights | Cancelled | On time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QantasLink | Qantas Group | 1,281 | 1.5% | 75.1% |
| Rex Airlines | 1,170 | 6.3% | 65.6% |
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.
| Direction | On time | Cancelled | Flights |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dubbo → Sydney | 74.4% | 3.9% | 2,490 |
| Sydney → Dubbo | 70.7% | 3.8% | 2,451 |
A 3.7 point gap in on-time departures · 12 months to Aug 2026
Cancellations over time
Punctuality data begins Nov 2003 and runs to Aug 2026. Gaps are months with no reported services, not missing data.
Passengers, 1984 to 2026
Traffic: to Jul 2026 · Marks show industry events
Passenger figures count both directions together — Sydney to Dubbo and back. The published statistics do not separate them. Cancellations, punctuality and flight numbers above are for Sydney to Dubbo 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 Dubbo is 1h 5m gate to gate, over 310 km. The return leg is scheduled at much the same, 1h 10m.
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 Dubbo. These are the numbers you book under — some are operated by a regional partner such as QantasLink or Alliance.
Typical flight time 1h 5m.
Scheduled every day this week — 55 departures in all.
Rex · 5 · Saab 340
ZL6824 · ZL6828 · ZL6832 · ZL6836 · ZL6852
Qantas · 4 · Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 / DHC-8-400, De Havilland Canada DHC-8-400 Dash 8Q
QF2028 · QF2040 · QF2042 · QF2044
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 | 18,048 · Sep 2014 |
| Pandemic low | 8,400 · Dec 2021 |
| Traffic vs 2019 average | 101.6% |
| Load factor, Jul 2026 | 69.4% |
| Aircraft trips, Jul 2026 | 438 |
| Great-circle distance | 310 km |
Traffic: to Jul 2026