Cancelled
1.9%
0.2 pts better than average
Sydney to Orange
SYD → OAG · 200 km · 9 flights a month · Orange to Sydney
On time (departures)
71.8%
national 78.2%
Flight time
55m
scheduled, gate to gate
Latest month
1.9%
Jul 2026 cancelled
Airlines
2
on this direction
Punctuality: 12 months to Jul 2026
Flights between Sydney and Orange carried 8,575 passengers in both directions in Jun 2026, ranking 62nd of the 62 routes with reported traffic that month. Over the 12 months to Jul 2026, 1.9% of flights from Sydney to Orange were cancelled, close to the national average of 2.1%. Direction matters here: Orange→Sydney departs on time 75.8% of the time against 71.8% coming back.
The route
200 km great-circle · 55m 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QantasLink | Qantas Group | 78 | 2.6% | 72.4% |
| Rex Airlines | 27 | 0.0% | 70.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sydney → Orange | 71.8% | 1.9% | 105 |
| Orange → Sydney | 75.8% | 3.1% | 98 |
A 4 point gap in on-time departures · 12 months to Jul 2026
Passengers, 2025 to 2026
Traffic: to Jun 2026 · Marks show industry events
Passenger figures count both directions together — Sydney to Orange and back. The published statistics do not separate them. Cancellations, punctuality and flight numbers above are for Sydney to Orange only.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Sydney to Orange is 55m gate to gate, over 200 km. The return leg is scheduled at much the same, 1h.
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
6 flight numbers currently scheduled from Sydney to Orange. These are the numbers you book under — some are operated by a regional partner such as QantasLink or Alliance.
Typical flight time 55m.
Scheduled every day this week — 30 departures in all.
Qantas · 3 · Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 / DHC-8-400
QF2009 · QF2011 · QF2013
Rex · 3 · Saab 340
ZL6174 · ZL6178 · ZL6588
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 | 10,011 · Mar 2026 |
| Load factor, Jun 2026 | 66.6% |
| Aircraft trips, Jun 2026 | 204 |
| Great-circle distance | 200 km |
Traffic: to Jun 2026