BNE to HBA flight delays
Brisbane (BNE) Hobart (Cambridge) (HBA)
728 flights · January 2025 – August 2026 · Australian Government BITRE
83.36%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
1.79%
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 9.9 points more often than QantasLink 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 route has been getting better. The later months in the record run 12.5 points more punctual than the earlier ones, which usually means a schedule that was too tight has been given more room.
The two directions do not behave alike. HBA to BNE arrives on time 11.1 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 Brisbane to Hobart (Cambridge) 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, Jetstar arrived on time most often on BNE to HBA. QantasLink was late most often. Flights ran closest to schedule in July and worst in January.
Every airline on BNE to HBA
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Virgin Australia | 364 | 84.12% | 1.37% | — | B |
| Jetstar | 229 | 86.22% | 1.75% | — | B |
| QantasLink | 135 | 76.34% | 2.96% | — | D |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
Other routes from Brisbane
Common questions
Are flights from Brisbane to Hobart (Cambridge) usually delayed?
83.36% of flights on the BNE to HBA 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 Brisbane to Hobart (Cambridge)?
Jetstar, at 86.22% on time across 229 flights. The least punctual on the route was QantasLink at 76.34%.
How often are BNE to HBA flights cancelled?
1.79% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 18 in every thousand. That is in the normal range.
What is the best month to fly Brisbane to Hobart (Cambridge)?
July, when 90.5% of flights arrived on time. The worst was January at 73.2%.
What these figures do and do not tell you
Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on BNE to HBA 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 →