CFS to SYD flight delays
Coffs Harbour (CFS) Sydney (Mascot) (SYD)
3,167 flights · March 2025 – August 2026 · Australian Government BITRE
73.3%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
3.03%
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 9.5 points more often than Rex Airlines 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: 3.03% 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.
The season swings this route hard. In April it ran 20.1 points more punctual than in November — 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.
Flights from Coffs Harbour to Sydney (Mascot) run late more often than the average route, though not severely.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over March 2025 – August 2026, QantasLink arrived on time most often on CFS to SYD. Rex Airlines was late most often. Flights ran closest to schedule in June and worst in November.
Every airline on CFS to SYD
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 | 1,751 | 77.21% | 4.28% | — | D |
| Rex Airlines | 1,354 | 67.66% | 1.33% | — | D |
| Qantas | 62 | 89.83% | 4.84% | — | — |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
Common questions
Are flights from Coffs Harbour to Sydney (Mascot) usually delayed?
73.3% of flights on the CFS to SYD route arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, so roughly 3 in every ten arrived late. That is worse than the average route in this record.
Which airline is most on time from Coffs Harbour to Sydney (Mascot)?
QantasLink, at 77.21% on time across 1,751 flights. The least punctual on the route was Rex Airlines at 67.66%.
How often are CFS to SYD flights cancelled?
3.03% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 30 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
What is the best month to fly Coffs Harbour to Sydney (Mascot)?
April, when 82.1% of flights arrived on time. The worst was November at 62%.
What these figures do and do not tell you
Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on CFS to SYD 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 →