Australian Flight Data

Sydney to Wagga Wagga

SYD → WGA · 367 km · 184 flights a month · Wagga Wagga to Sydney

Cancelled
1.9%
0.2 pts better than average
On time (departures)
73.9%
national 78.2%
Flight time
1h 15m
scheduled, gate to gate
Latest month
0.0%
Jul 2026 cancelled
Airlines
2
on this direction

Punctuality: 12 months to Jul 2026

Flights between Sydney and Wagga Wagga carried 14,581 passengers in both directions in Jun 2026, ranking 48th of the 62 routes with reported traffic that month. Over the 12 months to Jul 2026, 1.9% of flights from Sydney to Wagga Wagga were cancelled, close to the national average of 2.1%. Direction matters here: Wagga Wagga→Sydney departs on time 78.5% of the time against 73.9% coming back. The route is busiest in October and quietest in January.

The route

Sydney Wagga Wagga

367 km great-circle · 1h 15m 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.

AirlineGroupFlightsCancelledOn time
QantasLink Qantas Group 1,259 2.0% 80.0%
Rex Airlines 949 1.8% 65.8%

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.

DirectionOn timeCancelledFlights
Wagga Wagga → Sydney 78.5% 2.1% 2,211
Sydney → Wagga Wagga 73.9% 1.9% 2,208

A 4.6 point gap in on-time departures · 12 months to Jul 2026

Cancellations over time

0%2%4% Jul 2025Jan 2026Jul 2026
0%21%42%Delta lockdowns close the eastern states — Jul 2021 Omicron wave hits crew availability — Jan 2022 Bonza launches on leisure routes — Nov 2023 Bonza collapses after 15 months — Mar 2024 Rex enters administration and exits the trunk routes — Aug 2024 Cyclone Alfred closes south-east Queensland airports — Mar 2025 Jul 2021Jan 2024Jul 2026
0%22%43%Tigerair Australia stops flying — Feb 2020 COVID-19 border closures begin — Mar 2020 The deepest month: domestic traffic falls 96% — Apr 2020 Rex enters the trunk routes with jets — Mar 2021 Delta lockdowns close the eastern states — Jul 2021 Omicron wave hits crew availability — Jan 2022 Bonza launches on leisure routes — Nov 2023 Bonza collapses after 15 months — Mar 2024 Rex enters administration and exits the trunk routes — Aug 2024 Cyclone Alfred closes south-east Queensland airports — Mar 2025 Jul 2016Jul 2021Jul 2026
0%22%43%Jetstar launches — May 2004 OzJet's all-business experiment ends within months — Jan 2006 Tiger Airways Australia enters the market — Apr 2008 Volcanic ash cloud disrupts southern Australia — Jun 2011 Qantas grounds its entire fleet — Oct 2011 Skywest becomes Virgin Australia Regional Airlines — May 2013 Tigerair Australia stops flying — Feb 2020 COVID-19 border closures begin — Mar 2020 The deepest month: domestic traffic falls 96% — Apr 2020 Rex enters the trunk routes with jets — Mar 2021 Delta lockdowns close the eastern states — Jul 2021 Omicron wave hits crew availability — Jan 2022 Bonza launches on leisure routes — Nov 2023 Bonza collapses after 15 months — Mar 2024 Rex enters administration and exits the trunk routes — Aug 2024 Cyclone Alfred closes south-east Queensland airports — Mar 2025 Nov 2003Mar 2015Jul 2026

Punctuality data begins Nov 2003 and runs to Jul 2026. Gaps are months with no reported services, not missing data.

Passengers, 1984 to 2026

07,97715,953 Jun 2025Dec 2025Jun 2026
07,97715,953Delta lockdowns close the eastern states — Jul 2021 Omicron wave hits crew availability — Jan 2022 Bonza launches on leisure routes — Nov 2023 Bonza collapses after 15 months — Mar 2024 Rex enters administration and exits the trunk routes — Aug 2024 Cyclone Alfred closes south-east Queensland airports — Mar 2025 Jun 2021Dec 2023Jun 2026
08,57317,146Tigerair Australia stops flying — Feb 2020 COVID-19 border closures begin — Mar 2020 The deepest month: domestic traffic falls 96% — Apr 2020 Rex enters the trunk routes with jets — Mar 2021 Delta lockdowns close the eastern states — Jul 2021 Omicron wave hits crew availability — Jan 2022 Bonza launches on leisure routes — Nov 2023 Bonza collapses after 15 months — Mar 2024 Rex enters administration and exits the trunk routes — Aug 2024 Cyclone Alfred closes south-east Queensland airports — Mar 2025 Jun 2016Jun 2021Jun 2026
08,95417,907The pilots' dispute grounds domestic aviation — Aug 1989 Domestic deregulation ends the Two Airline Policy — Oct 1990 Virgin Blue launches — Aug 2000 Ansett Australia collapses — Sep 2001 Jetstar launches — May 2004 OzJet's all-business experiment ends within months — Jan 2006 Tiger Airways Australia enters the market — Apr 2008 Volcanic ash cloud disrupts southern Australia — Jun 2011 Qantas grounds its entire fleet — Oct 2011 Skywest becomes Virgin Australia Regional Airlines — May 2013 Tigerair Australia stops flying — Feb 2020 COVID-19 border closures begin — Mar 2020 The deepest month: domestic traffic falls 96% — Apr 2020 Rex enters the trunk routes with jets — Mar 2021 Delta lockdowns close the eastern states — Jul 2021 Omicron wave hits crew availability — Jan 2022 Bonza launches on leisure routes — Nov 2023 Bonza collapses after 15 months — Mar 2024 Rex enters administration and exits the trunk routes — Aug 2024 Cyclone Alfred closes south-east Queensland airports — Mar 2025 Jan 1984Apr 2005Jun 2026

Traffic: to Jun 2026 · Marks show industry events

Passenger figures count both directions together — Sydney to Wagga Wagga and back. The published statistics do not separate them. Cancellations, punctuality and flight numbers above are for Sydney to Wagga Wagga 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.

J: 0.74× the annual average J F: 0.89× the annual average F M: 1.08× the annual average M A: 0.97× the annual average A M: 1.05× the annual average M J: 1.00× the annual average J J: 1.03× the annual average J A: 1.08× the annual average A S: 1.06× the annual average S O: 1.10× the annual average O N: 1.07× the annual average N D: 0.93× the annual average D

Both directions combined, as published.

How long is the flight?

Scheduled flight time from Sydney to Wagga Wagga is 1h 15m gate to gate, over 367 km. The return leg is scheduled at much the same, 1h 10m.

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

8 flight numbers currently scheduled from Sydney to Wagga Wagga. These are the numbers you book under — some are operated by a regional partner such as QantasLink or Alliance.

Typical flight time 1h 15m.

Scheduled every day this week — 46 departures in all.

Qantas · 4 · Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 / DHC-8-400, De Havilland Canada DHC-8-400 Dash 8Q

QF2221 · QF2223 · QF2225 · QF2227

Rex · 4 · Saab 340, Saab 340B

ZL6661 · ZL6663 · ZL6673 · ZL6681

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 record17,907 · Oct 2010
Pandemic low8,510 · Mar 2021
Traffic vs 2019 average93%
Load factor, Jun 202671.6%
Aircraft trips, Jun 2026342
Great-circle distance367 km

Traffic: to Jun 2026

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