Flight time
2h 45m
Sydney to Townsville, scheduled
Sydney to Townsville
SYD → TSV · 1,690 km · Townsville to Sydney
Distance
1,690 km
great-circle
Punctuality for this route is no longer reported, though historical figures remain below. The route is busiest in July and quietest in February.
The route
1,690 km great-circle · 2h 45m typical
Cancellations over time
Not enough data to chart.
Punctuality data begins Nov 2003 and runs to Jun 2021. Gaps are months with no reported services, not missing data.
Punctuality is no longer reported for this route. The historical series above ends Jun 2021.
Passengers, 1984 to 2026
Not enough data to chart.
Not enough data to chart.
Traffic: to Jun 2026 · Marks show industry events
Passenger figures count both directions together — Sydney to Townsville and back. The published statistics do not separate them. Cancellations, punctuality and flight numbers above are for Sydney to Townsville 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 Townsville is 2h 45m gate to gate, over 1,690 km. The return leg is scheduled at much the same, 2h 40m.
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
2 flight numbers currently scheduled from Sydney to Townsville. These are the numbers you book under — some are operated by a regional partner such as QantasLink or Alliance.
The route still operates, but it is no longer large enough to appear in the published passenger statistics — those end Mar 2020. The timetable below is current.
Typical flight time 2h 45m.
Scheduled every day this week — 14 departures in all.
Jetstar · 1 · Airbus A320, Airbus A320 (Sharklets), Airbus A320 NEO
JQ912
Qantas · 1 · Embraer 190
QF1944
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 | 19,142 · Jul 2019 |
| Pandemic low | 6,579 · Mar 2020 |
| Great-circle distance | 1,690 km |
Traffic: to Jun 2026