Passengers
33,934
Sydney to Rarotonga, 12 months to Jun 2026
Sydney to Rarotonga
Cook Islands · 241 months of data from Aug 1986 · Rarotonga to Sydney
Both directions
67,879
including Rarotonga to Sydney
Flight time
5h 50m
1h 45m shorter than the return
Load factor
68%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026
33,934 passengers flew Sydney to Rarotonga in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 67,879 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 68% full, much the same in both directions. This route has been reported for 20 years.
Passenger history milestones
Recorded milestones use this city-pair passenger series, with both directions combined. A first positive record is not a service-launch date; complete calendar years require all twelve observed, non-null months.
First positive passenger record
Aug 1986
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Latest complete year · also peak
2025
71,108 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Sydney; the ring marks the distance to Rarotonga.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Sydney to Rarotonga is 5h 50m gate to gate, over 4,992 km. Coming back takes 7h 35m — a difference of 1h 45m, 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 Rarotonga. These are the numbers you book under.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Tue, Wed, Fri and Sun (4 departures).
Jetstar · 1 · Airbus A320
JQ113
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, 1986 to 2026
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
To Jun 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.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Load factor: seats data from 2009
When is this route busiest?
Average passengers by calendar month over the last ten years, relative to the annual average.
Freight
Tonnes of air freight carried on this route — a dimension the domestic data does not have at all.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
To Jun 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 7,229 · Oct 2025 |
| Data coverage | Aug 1986 – Jun 2026 (241 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Jun 2026 | 0 tonnes |
| Destination region | Cook Islands |
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.