ADL to OOL flight delays
Adelaide (ADL) Gold Coast (OOL)
1,146 flights · March 2025 – August 2026 · Australian Government BITRE
83.1%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
0.87%
Cancelled
Share of scheduled flights
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When late, late by
Average across delayed arrivals
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Delay per flight
Averaged over every flight flown
What the record says about this route
Which airline you fly changes the odds here. Jetstar arrived on time 6.3 points more often than Virgin Australia over the same period on the same route — same airports, same weather, same air traffic control. A gap that survives all of that is about how the two airlines are run.
The season swings this route hard. In November it ran 23.8 points more punctual than in June — a difference bigger than the one between the best and worst airlines on most routes. If the date is flexible, it is worth more than the carrier.
The two directions do not behave alike. OOL to ADL arrives on time 6.7 points less often than the outbound. Delay accumulates through the flying day, so whichever direction is scheduled later tends to carry the worse record — which is an argument for booking the morning departure if the choice exists.
Flights from Adelaide to Gold Coast keep to schedule more reliably than most. On a route this punctual the day you fly matters more than the airline you pick.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over March 2025 – August 2026, Jetstar arrived on time most often on ADL to OOL. Virgin Australia was late most often. Flights ran closest to schedule in November and worst in June.
Every airline on ADL to OOL
Ranked by how many flights each one operated. A carrier with fewer than 100 flights in the period is listed but not graded.
| Airline | Flights | On time | Cancelled | Avg delay | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jetstar | 607 | 86.05% | 0.82% | — | B |
| Virgin Australia | 539 | 79.78% | 0.93% | — | C |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
The return leg
OOL to ADL Gold Coast back to Adelaide 76.43% on time CCommon questions
Are flights from Adelaide to Gold Coast usually delayed?
83.1% of flights on the ADL to OOL route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 2 in every ten arrived late. That is better than the average route in this record.
Which airline is most on time from Adelaide to Gold Coast?
Jetstar, at 86.05% on time across 607 flights. The least punctual on the route was Virgin Australia at 79.78%.
How often are ADL to OOL flights cancelled?
0.87% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 9 in every thousand. That is in the normal range.
What is the best month to fly Adelaide to Gold Coast?
November, when 95.5% of flights arrived on time. The worst was June at 71.7%.
What these figures do and do not tell you
Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on ADL to OOL during March 2025 – August 2026, as reported by the airlines to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics. "On time" is the federal definition: arriving at the gate within 15 minutes of the scheduled time.
A route's record is a description of the past, not a forecast. Weather, air traffic control and the aircraft's earlier flights that day drive most delays, and none of them are predictable from a historical rate. What the record does tell you is whether this route runs late more often than others, and which carrier on it has the better history — which is the part you can actually act on when you book.
Cancellations are counted separately from delays because they are a different problem for a traveller: a late flight still gets you there. How the grade is calculated →