BNE Brisbane

How deep the BNE board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from BNE. This reads the same 81 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound, what the clock here does to a Gulf working day and which of the destinations shut at night, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 39of the 81 destinations are flown by one airline
• 27destinations run less than once a day
• 18destinations have four or more departures a day
• 55.6%of the destinations name Qantas, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at BNE

48 airlines appear on the BNE board and they do not hold it evenly. Qantas is on 45 of the 81 destinations, 55.6 per cent of them, and on 12 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 271.9 of the 310.2 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is Virgin Australia on 24 destinations. 29 of the 48 airlines at BNE appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

An airport held this tightly is quick to book and slow to recover: with 45 of the 81 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a BNE sector is usually another Qantas aircraft, and when there is not one the desk is looking at another airport rather than another airline. That is why the alternate airports listed above matter more at BNE than the destination count does.

How much of the BNE board is daily

Of the 81 destinations, 54 are flown at least once a day and 27 are not, 5 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the BNE board is flown about once a day.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: BNE to Nhulunbuy (GOV) is about one a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 124.6 of the 310.2 departures a day, 40.2 per cent of the whole board. The other 76 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at BNE usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Groote Eylandt GTE	Australia	Alliance Airlines	1	2,281	plan this
Honolulu HNL	the United States	COL	1	7,552	the pair page
Karatha KTA	Australia	Virgin Australia	1	3,751	plan this
Luganville SON	Vanuatu	Solomon Airlines	1	1,965	plan this
Nhulunbuy GOV	Australia	Qantas	1	2,389	plan this
Babelthuap Island ROR	Palau	Qantas	2	4,351	plan this
Weipa WEI	Australia	Alliance Airlines	2	2,007	plan this
Apia APW	Samoa	Qantas	3	3,912	plan this
Avarua RAR	Cook Islands	Jetstar	3	4,793	plan this
Ayers Rock AYQ	Australia	Virgin Australia	3	2,218	plan this

The ten destinations out of BNE where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable. 14 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from BNE

The desk holds the return direction for 34 of the 81 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 34 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through BNE is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.

The clock at BNE

BNE keeps Australia/Brisbane time, six hours ahead of Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 15:00 at BNE, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for three hours. That is a narrow window for a signature, a customs query or an authority to release, and it is the reason a consignment for BNE is briefed the day before rather than on the morning it flies.

The night at BNE

3 of the destinations from here carry a documented night restriction of their own, which is a departure time question at this end rather than an arrival problem at the other.

Into Sydney (SYD) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from BNE that lands inside it leaves around 21:23, on a modelled block of 1h 37m. Into Adelaide (ADL) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from BNE that lands inside it leaves around 20:56, on a modelled block of 2h 34m. Into Tokyo (NRT) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from BNE that lands inside it leaves around 14:53, on a modelled block of 9h 07m. Those three departure times out of BNE are worked backwards from the published window with the block time model this site uses everywhere, 720 to 880 km an hour by sector length with thirty minutes on the ground, so they are arithmetic rather than a timetable and the desk checks the published departure before it promises the landing.

Where BNE turns up on the rest of this site

BNE carries two other pages on this site as well: the Australia country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport and the BNE transit page for the connecting case, where a courier changes aircraft here rather than starting or finishing.

The site publishes 26 airport pair pages that start or end at BNE, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Brisbane to Sydney (SYD), Brisbane to Melbourne (MEL) and Brisbane to Cairns (CNS).

One of the 346 published hand carry lanes runs through this airport: Dubai to Brisbane. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at BNE written out.

Five courier postings name BNE as the airport a courier here flies from: Brisbane, Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with BNE already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 81 destinations above.