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JQ 251Auckland to Wellington

Jetstar Airways🇳🇿AKL🇳🇿WLGAuckland International Airport to Wellington International Airport
Departs
06:00
observed schedule, local to Auckland
Operates
Mon-Sat
2026–27 observed schedule
Distance
480 km
298 miles
Typical delay
8 min
35 departures
Stored schedule example
1 hr 5 min
Departure (Pacific/Auckland): 10 Nov 2026, 06:00; arrival (Pacific/Auckland): 10 Nov 2026, 07:05

Observations: 30 Jun to 9 Nov 2026. This period describes the flights recorded, not whether the timetable is still valid.

The route

Great circle, 480 km
AKLWLG480 km
480 km (298 miles) great-circle, measured between the two airports' published coordinates. The line is the shortest path over the globe, which on a flat map bows away from a straight line.

What flies it

38 sightings

Airbus A320-200 (A320).

Aircraft types we recorded on this flight. A type is never inferred from the route, so a flight we have not seen closely shows none.

How delayed is JQ 251?

Measured over months

This flight leaves Auckland International Airport a typical 8 minutes late (likely 6 to 9), across 35 departures we tracked between 2026-06-30 and 2026-11-09.

median delay of tracked departures on this leg. Resolved departures in Flight Owl's development corpus, including automated test-account tracking and other development tracking. This is not a census of all flights at the airport and does not represent production user traffic.

Other flights on this route

1 more
Other observed flight numbers from Auckland to Wellington
FlightAirlineDepartsDepartures seen
NZ 401Air New Zealand06:0067

Where it goes

How these numbers are measured