HBA Hobart

How deep the HBA board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from HBA. This reads the same 7 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.

• 4of the 7 destinations are flown by one airline
• 4destinations run less than once a day
• 2destinations have four or more departures a day
• 71.4%of the destinations name Jetstar, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at HBA

Four airlines appear on the HBA board and they do not hold it evenly. Jetstar is on 5 of the 7 destinations, 71.4 per cent of them, and on 2 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 25.3 of the 26.4 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 4 destinations. 1 of the 4 airlines at HBA appears on a single destination, 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 5 of the 7 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an HBA sector is usually another Jetstar aircraft, and when there is not one the desk is looking at another airport rather than another airline. No alternate airport within road reach is held for HBA, so that second look is a longer road leg or a different day.

How much of the HBA board is daily

Of the 7 destinations, 3 are flown at least once a day and 4 are not, though none of them drops to once a week or less. The median destination on the HBA board is flown 5 times a week.

An average of 0.43 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: HBA to Perth (PER) is 3 a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 25.3 of the 26.4 departures a day, 95.7 per cent of the whole board. On that arithmetic HBA 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
Perth PER	Australia	Virgin Australia	3	3,016	plan this
Adelaide ADL	Australia	Jetstar	5	1,171	plan this
Canberra CBR	Australia	Fly Corporate	5	850	plan this
Gold OOL	Australia	Jetstar	5	1,718	plan this

The four destinations out of HBA 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 HBA

The desk holds the return direction for 6 of the 7 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 6 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through HBA is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.

The clock at HBA

HBA keeps Australia/Hobart time, six hours ahead of Dubai in summer and seven hours ahead in winter, because the clock here moves and the Gulf clock does not.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 15:00 at HBA, 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 HBA is briefed the day before rather than on the morning it flies.

The night at HBA

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 HBA that lands inside it leaves around 21:10, on a modelled block of 1h 50m. Into Adelaide (ADL) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from HBA that lands inside it leaves around 21:30, on a modelled block of 2h 00m. Those two departure times out of HBA 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 HBA 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.

Three courier postings name HBA as the airport a courier here flies from: Hobart, Launceston and Devonport.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with HBA already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 7 destinations above.