EMD to BNE flight delays
1,125 flights · January 2025 – August 2026 · Australian Government BITRE
90.23%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
3.56%
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: 3.56% 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.
Which airline you fly changes the odds here. QantasLink arrived on time 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.
Flights from Emerald to Brisbane are among the most dependable in the record. A route this punctual is usually a short hop between airports with slots to spare.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over January 2025 – August 2026, QantasLink arrived on time most often on EMD to BNE. Virgin Australia was late most often. Flights ran closest to schedule in May and worst in March.
Every airline on EMD to BNE
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 | 917 | 91.36% | 4.03% | — | B |
| Virgin Australia | 208 | 85.37% | 1.44% | — | B |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
The return leg
BNE to EMD Brisbane back to Emerald 87.81% on time BCommon questions
Are flights from Emerald to Brisbane usually delayed?
90.23% of flights on the EMD to BNE 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 Emerald to Brisbane?
QantasLink, at 91.36% on time across 917 flights. The least punctual on the route was Virgin Australia at 85.37%.
How often are EMD to BNE flights cancelled?
3.56% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 36 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
What is the best month to fly Emerald to Brisbane?
May, when 93.9% of flights arrived on time. The worst was March at 82.5%.
What these figures do and do not tell you
Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on EMD to BNE 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 →