DPO to MEL flight delays
Devonport (DPO) Melbourne (MEL)
958 flights · January 2025 – August 2026 · Australian Government BITRE
83.78%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
2.82%
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
Cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth pricing here: 2.82% 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.
Flights from Devonport to Melbourne keep to schedule more reliably than most. On a route this punctual the day you fly matters more than the airline you pick.
The 2 airlines here are separated by under 1 point — close enough to call a tie. Choose on price and departure time.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over January 2025 – August 2026, QantasLink arrived on time most often on DPO to MEL. Rex Airlines was late most often. Flights ran closest to schedule in May and worst in March.
Every airline on DPO to MEL
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 | 668 | 83.97% | 1.95% | — | B |
| Rex Airlines | 290 | 83.33% | 4.83% | — | C |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
The return leg
MEL to DPO Melbourne back to Devonport 81.82% on time CCommon questions
Are flights from Devonport to Melbourne usually delayed?
83.78% of flights on the DPO to MEL 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 Devonport to Melbourne?
QantasLink, at 83.97% on time across 668 flights. The least punctual on the route was Rex Airlines at 83.33%.
How often are DPO to MEL flights cancelled?
2.82% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 28 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
What is the best month to fly Devonport to Melbourne?
May, when 92.6% of flights arrived on time. The worst was June at 77.5%.
What these figures do and do not tell you
Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on DPO to MEL 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 →