AirportsAuckland

Auckland to Sydney

🇳🇿AKL🇦🇺SYDAuckland International Airport to Sydney Kingsford Smith International AirportNew Zealand to Australia
Distance
2,159 km
1,342 miles
Frequency
About 14 a day
S26 schedule
Airlines
7
Qantas, Jetstar Airways, Air New Zealand, codeshares included
Typical delay
16 min
55 departures

The route

Great circle, 2,159 km
AKLSYD2,159 km
2,159 km (1,342 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.

How delayed is this route?

Measured over months

Departures from Auckland International Airport on this route are typically 16 minutes late (likely 13 to 23), across 55 departures we tracked between 2026-03-25 and 2026-08-23.

median delay of tracked departures on this leg. Flight Owl's own resolved departure predictions (flights our users tracked), not a census of all flights at the airport.

Airlines on this route

7 airlines with a flight number here

Every airline that puts its own flight number on this route. On a busy pair most of them are codeshare partners selling seats on another airline's aircraft, so this is wider than the list of airlines that actually operate it.

Flights on this route

1 of 28 flight numbers tracked often enough to describe
FlightAirlineDepartsAircraftDepartures seen
QF 140Qantas06:00B738 on 93% of sightings, also 73H27

Departure times are local to Auckland International Airport. A flight appears here once we have tracked it at least 10 times.

Both airports

How these numbers are measured