Passengers
92,732
Wellington to Brisbane, 12 months to May 2026
Wellington to Brisbane
New Zealand · 478 months of data from Jan 1985 · Brisbane to Wellington
Both directions
184,461
including Brisbane to Wellington
Flight time
4h 5m
35m longer than the return
Load factor
80%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to May 2026
92,732 passengers flew Wellington to Brisbane in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 184,461 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 80% full, much the same in both directions. This route has been reported for 40 years.
The route
Distances are true from Brisbane; the ring marks the distance to Wellington.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Wellington to Brisbane is 4h 5m gate to gate, over 2,512 km. Coming back takes 3h 30m — a difference of 35m, so this direction is the slower 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
3 flight numbers currently scheduled from Wellington to Brisbane. These are the numbers you book under.
Scheduled every day this week — 11 departures in all.
Qantas · 2 · Boeing 737-800, Boeing 737-800 (winglets), Airbus A220-300
QF196 · QF282
Air New Zealand · 1 · Airbus A320, Airbus A321 NEO
NZ271
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, 1985 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
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.
To May 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 20,428 · Jan 2016 |
| Data coverage | Jan 1985 – May 2026 (478 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to May 2026 | 32 tonnes |
| 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.