The sector is held by Jetstar.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
CNS Cairns to DPS Bali
Cairns Airport, Australia, to Ngurah Rai International, Indonesia. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 5 times a week
- Great circle
- 3,433 km
- Block, estimated
- 4h 38m
- Door to door
- 11h 23m
What CNS to DPS looks like
The CNS to DPS sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Cairns CNS to Bali DPS is a medium haul sector of 3,433 km by great circle, flown nonstop 5 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 3,433 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 4h 38m.
Cairns CNS is a smaller airport in the network held here, 28 scheduled destinations and 60.6 departures a day. Bali DPS has 61 destinations and 211.1 departures a day.
Bali carries about 3.5 times the departures of Cairns, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Bali is 2 hours behind of Cairns all year.
The pair sits inside Asia Pacific, a corridor where the site already publishes 16 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on CNS to DPS from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CNS to DPS | 0.71 | 5 | Jetstar |
| DPS to CNS | 0.71 | 5 | Jetstar |
One carrier holds the sector, Jetstar, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 9.9 departures a week on CNS to DPS, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 4h 38m block time on CNS to DPS. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to CNS | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At CNS before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| CNS to DPS in the air, estimated | 278 min | 9h 08m |
| Formalities at DPS | 90 min | 10h 38m |
| Delivery run in Bali | 45 min | 11h 23m |
| Door to door | 683 min | 11h 23m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for CNS to DPS is 11h 23m.
A courier who leaves Cairns at 09:00 local is on the ground in Bali at about 11:38 local and at the door by 13:53 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Bali, the last useful departure from Cairns is around 13:07 local.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 10 of them join CNS to DPS.
| Connecting at | CNS to hub, flights a day | Hub to DPS, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Darwin DRW | 1.43 | 0.59 | 3,439 | 6h 23m |
| Brisbane BNE | 13.43 | 3.71 | 5,879 | 9h 11m |
| Adelaide ADL | 1.71 | 2.14 | 5,893 | 9h 15m |
| Gold Coast OOL | 1.14 | 1.57 | 6,038 | 9h 23m |
| Sydney SYD | 9.57 | 6.86 | 6,595 | 10h 05m |
| Melbourne MEL | 8 | 9 | 6,695 | 10h 14m |
10 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Darwin DRW, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4.1 times a week.
Through DRW the routing covers 3,439 km against the 3,433 km nonstop track and takes about 6h 23m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 45m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Brisbane BNE at 9h 11m and Adelaide ADL at 9h 15m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
Restricted hours at either end
Widely documented operating restrictions, checked 2026-09-07. Exemptions and seasonal variations exist, so confirm with the carrier before relying on any of them.
Bali DPS, nyepi closure: The airport closes for 24 hours once a year for Nyepi, the Balinese day of silence, in March or April; the date moves with the Balinese calendar. No flights operate and nothing moves on the island.
Plan Cairns to Bali yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for CNS to DPS in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
- The CNS airport entry
- The DPS airport entry
- Hand carry into Australia
- Hand carry into Indonesia
- The written lane, Bali to Singapore
- The written lane, Bali to Sydney
- The written lane, Dubai to Bali
- The route calculator
More pairs through CNS and DPS: Brisbane to Cairns, Sydney to Cairns, Cairns to Melbourne, Cairns to Osaka, Auckland to Cairns, Cairns to Perth, Jakarta to Bali, Bali to Kuala Lumpur.