OOL Gold Coast

How deep the OOL board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from OOL. This reads the same 21 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.

• 8of the 21 destinations are flown by one airline
• 13destinations run less than once a day
• 2destinations have four or more departures a day
• 66.7%of the destinations name Jetstar, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at OOL

20 airlines appear on the OOL board and they do not hold it evenly. Jetstar is on 14 of the 21 destinations, 66.7 per cent of them, and on 6 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 55.9 of the 59.2 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 5 destinations. 16 of the 20 airlines at OOL 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 14 of the 21 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an OOL sector is usually another Jetstar 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 OOL than the destination count does.

How much of the OOL board is daily

Of the 21 destinations, 8 are flown at least once a day and 13 are not, 1 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the OOL board is flown 6 times a week.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: OOL to Maroochydore (MCY) 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 47.9 of the 59.2 departures a day, 80.9 per cent of the whole board. On that arithmetic OOL is five sectors and a short tail, so the depth on the board above is thinner than the destination count suggests and a hand carry that is not going to one of those five is planned around a single departure time.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Maroochydore MCY	Australia	AQR	1	178	plan this
Nadi NAN	Fiji	Fiji Airways	3	2,703	plan this
Dunedin DUD	New Zealand	Jetstar	4	2,458	plan this
Queenstown ZQN	New Zealand	Jetstar	4	2,307	plan this
Wellington WLG	New Zealand	Jetstar	4	2,424	plan this
Hamilton HLZ	New Zealand	Jetstar	5	2,295	plan this
Hobart HBA	Australia	Jetstar	5	1,718	plan this

The seven destinations out of OOL 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.

The way back from OOL

The desk holds the return direction for 12 of the 21 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 12 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through OOL is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.

The clock at OOL

OOL 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 OOL, 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 OOL is briefed the day before rather than on the morning it flies.

The night at OOL

2 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 OOL that lands inside it leaves around 21:30, on a modelled block of 1h 30m. Into Adelaide (ADL) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from OOL that lands inside it leaves around 20:57, on a modelled block of 2h 33m. Those two departure times out of OOL 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 OOL turns up on the rest of this site

The airport also sits behind the Australia country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport.

The site publishes 5 airport pair pages that start or end at OOL, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Gold Coast to Sydney (SYD), Gold Coast to Melbourne (MEL) and Gold Coast to Auckland (AKL).

Three courier postings name OOL as the airport a courier here flies from: Brisbane, Gold Coast and Coffs Harbour.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with OOL already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 21 destinations above.