AirportsBrisbane

Brisbane to Melbourne

🇦🇺BNE🇦🇺MELBrisbane International Airport to Melbourne AirportDomestic, Australia
Distance
1,381 km
858 miles
Frequency
253 departures a week
S26 schedule
Airlines
3
Qantas, Virgin Australia, Jetstar Airways, codeshares included
Typical delay
19 min
92 departures

The route

Great circle, 1,381 km
BNEMEL1,381 km
1,381 km (858 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 Brisbane International Airport on this route are typically 19 minutes late (likely 14 to 26), across 92 departures we tracked between 2026-03-27 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

3 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

3 of 55 flight numbers tracked often enough to describe
FlightAirlineDepartsAircraftDepartures seen
VA 342Virgin Australia16:55B738 on 76% of sightings, also B38M, B73736
QF 619Qantas10:05not seen yet11
QF 7305Qantas00:50A32111

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

Both airports

How these numbers are measured