Passengers
28,973
Sydney to Hamilton, 12 months to May 2026
Sydney to Hamilton
New Zealand · 185 months of data from Oct 1995 · Hamilton to Sydney
Both directions
58,996
including Hamilton to Sydney
Flight time
3h 5m
30m shorter than the return
Load factor
81%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to May 2026
28,973 passengers flew Sydney to Hamilton in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 58,996 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 81% full, much the same in both directions.
The route
Distances are true from Sydney; the ring marks the distance to Hamilton.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Sydney to Hamilton is 3h 5m gate to gate, over 2,217 km. Coming back takes 3h 35m — a difference of 30m, 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
1 flight number currently scheduled from Sydney to Hamilton. These are the numbers you book under.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Thu and Sat (2 departures).
Jetstar · 1 · Airbus A320
JQ165
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, 1995 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
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 | 6,853 · Mar 1996 |
| Data coverage | Oct 1995 – May 2026 (185 months) |
| 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.