SYD to PQQ flight delays
Sydney (Mascot) (SYD) Port Macquarie (PQQ)
1,291 flights · January 2025 – August 2026 · Australian Government BITRE
72.68%
Arrived on time
Within 15 minutes of schedule
4.18%
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: 4.18% 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 7.8 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.
The season swings this route hard. In January it ran 20.3 points more punctual than in May — 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.
This route does worse than its own airport. SYD as a whole runs 7.1 points more punctual than these flights, which points at something specific to the route — the time of day it is scheduled, or the aircraft that feed it — rather than the airport.
Which airline should you fly on this route?
Over January 2025 – August 2026, QantasLink arrived on time most often on SYD to PQQ. Rex Airlines was late most often. Flights ran closest to schedule in January and worst in May.
Every airline on SYD to PQQ
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 | 812 | 75.54% | 3.33% | — | D |
| Rex Airlines | 479 | 67.7% | 5.64% | — | F |
Month by month
Share of flights that arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, by month flown.
Other routes from Sydney (Mascot)
Common questions
Are flights from Sydney (Mascot) to Port Macquarie usually delayed?
72.68% of flights on the SYD to PQQ 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 Sydney (Mascot) to Port Macquarie?
QantasLink, at 75.54% on time across 812 flights. The least punctual on the route was Rex Airlines at 67.7%.
How often are SYD to PQQ flights cancelled?
4.18% of scheduled flights did not operate — about 42 in every thousand. That is high enough that cancellation, not delay, is the risk worth planning around.
What is the best month to fly Sydney (Mascot) to Port Macquarie?
January, when 80% of flights arrived on time. The worst was May at 59.7%.
What these figures do and do not tell you
Everything on this page is counted from the flights that actually operated on SYD to PQQ 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 →