BNE to EMD flight delays
1,124 flights · January 2025 – August 2026 · Australian Government BITRE
87.81%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
2.94%
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. QantasLink arrived on time 10.6 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.
Cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth pricing here: 2.94% of scheduled flights never operated. A late flight still gets you there. A cancelled one leaves you rebooking, and on a route with few daily departures that can mean losing a day.
This route does better than its own airport. Departures from BNE overall run 9.1 points less punctual than this particular one — so whatever congestion BNE has, this route is largely escaping it.
Flights from Brisbane to Emerald 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 January 2025 – August 2026, QantasLink arrived on time most often on BNE to EMD. Virgin Australia was late most often. Flights ran closest to schedule in February and worst in March.
Every airline on BNE to EMD
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QantasLink | 916 | 89.82% | 3.49% | — | B |
| Virgin Australia | 208 | 79.23% | 0.48% | — | C |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
The return leg
EMD to BNE Emerald back to Brisbane 90.23% on time BOther routes from Brisbane
Common questions
Are flights from Brisbane to Emerald usually delayed?
87.81% of flights on the BNE to EMD route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 1 in every ten arrived late. That is better than the average route in this record.
Which airline is most on time from Brisbane to Emerald?
QantasLink, at 89.82% on time across 916 flights. The least punctual on the route was Virgin Australia at 79.23%.
How often are BNE to EMD flights cancelled?
2.94% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 29 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
What is the best month to fly Brisbane to Emerald?
February, when 91.5% of flights arrived on time. The worst was March at 79.7%.
What these figures do and do not tell you
Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on BNE to EMD during January 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 →