Passengers
30,904
Wellington to Gold Coast, 12 months to May 2026
Wellington to Gold Coast
New Zealand · 169 months of data from Feb 2005 · Gold Coast to Wellington
Both directions
62,353
including Gold Coast to Wellington
Flight time
3h 45m
30m longer than the return
Load factor
94%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to May 2026
30,904 passengers flew Wellington to Gold Coast in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 62,353 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 94% full, much the same in both directions.
The route
Distances are true from Gold Coast; the ring marks the distance to Wellington.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Wellington to Gold Coast is 3h 45m gate to gate, over 2,425 km. Coming back takes 3h 15m — a difference of 30m, 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
1 flight number currently scheduled from Wellington to Gold Coast. These are the numbers you book under.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Wed, Fri and Sun (3 departures).
Jetstar · 1 · Airbus A320, Airbus A320 NEO
JQ168
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, 2005 to 2026
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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 | 7,581 · Jan 2025 |
| Data coverage | Feb 2005 – May 2026 (169 months) |
| 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.