Cancelled
0.9%
1.1 pts better than average
Sydney to Gold Coast
SYD → OOL · 680 km · 686 flights a month · Gold Coast to Sydney
On time (departures)
78.1%
national 78.2%
Flight time
1h 20m
10m shorter than the return
Latest month
0.8%
Jul 2026 cancelled
Airlines
3
on this direction
Punctuality: 12 months to Jul 2026
Flights between Sydney and Gold Coast carried 190,998 passengers in both directions in Jun 2026, ranking 4th of the 62 routes with reported traffic that month. Over the 12 months to Jul 2026, 0.9% of flights from Sydney to Gold Coast were cancelled, well below the national average of 2.1%. The route is busiest in January and quietest in February.
The route
680 km great-circle · 1h 20m 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.
| Airline | Group | Flights | Cancelled | On time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Virgin Australia | Virgin Australia Group | 3,645 | 0.6% | 77.5% |
| Jetstar | 3,007 | 1.9% | 78.8% | |
| Qantas | Qantas Group | 1,581 | 0.0% | 78.2% |
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 Gold Coast and back. The published statistics do not separate them. Cancellations, punctuality and flight numbers above are for Sydney to Gold Coast 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 Gold Coast is 1h 20m gate to gate, over 680 km. The return leg is scheduled at 1h 30m — the two directions differ by 10m, so this way round is the quicker one.
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
36 flight numbers currently scheduled from Sydney to Gold Coast. These are the numbers you book under — some are operated by a regional partner such as QantasLink or Alliance.
Typical flight time 1h 20m.
Scheduled every day this week — 165 departures in all.
Qantas · 15 · Airbus A320, Airbus A320 (Sharklets), Boeing 737-800, Airbus A320 NEO
QF586 · QF590 · QF592 · QF594 · QF596 · QF598 · QF5400 · QF5402 · QF5404 · QF5406 · QF5408 · QF5410 · QF5416 · QF5418 · QF5420
Virgin Australia · 11 · Boeing 737-800, Boeing 737, Boeing 737 MAX 8, Boeing 737-700
VA505 · VA509 · VA511 · VA515 · VA519 · VA523 · VA525 · VA529 · VA533 · VA541 · VA545
Jetstar · 10 · Airbus A320, Airbus A320 (Sharklets), Airbus A320 NEO
JQ400 · JQ402 · JQ404 · JQ406 · JQ408 · JQ410 · JQ414 · JQ416 · JQ418 · JQ420
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 | 275,559 · Jan 2020 |
| Pandemic low | 1,518 · Apr 2020 |
| Traffic vs 2019 average | 92.4% |
| Load factor, Jun 2026 | 85.2% |
| Aircraft trips, Jun 2026 | 1,281 |
| Great-circle distance | 680 km |
Traffic: to Jun 2026