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$281 Find Cheap Flights from Brisbane to Queenstown

This is the cheapest one-way flight price found by a KAYAK user in the last 72 hours by searching for a flight from Brisbane to Queenstown departing on 12/10. Fares are subject to change and may not be available on all flights or dates of travel. Click the price to replicate the search for this deal.
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Cheap Flights from Brisbane to Queenstown (BNE-ZQN)

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for return flights from Brisbane to Queenstown that are departing in the next months. While these flights were available on KAYAK in the last 72 hours, prices and availability are subject to change and deals may expire.
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Recent return flight deals from Brisbane to Queenstown

Tue, 12 Aug - Thu, 21 Aug
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23:20 - 12:20BNE-ZQN
11h 00m1 stop
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16:50 - 08:30ZQN-BNE
17h 40m1 stop
$498Jetstar
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Mon, 18 Aug - Thu, 21 Aug
Jetstar Logo
23:20 - 12:20BNE-ZQN
11h 00m1 stop
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16:50 - 08:30ZQN-BNE
17h 40m1 stop
$517Jetstar
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Mon, 4 Aug - Wed, 13 Aug
Jetstar Logo
23:20 - 10:10BNE-ZQN
8h 50m1 stop
Jetstar Logo
10:55 - 18:55ZQN-BNE
10h 00m1 stop
$518Jetstar
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Fri, 22 Aug - Wed, 27 Aug
Jetstar Logo
23:35 - 09:05BNE-ZQN
7h 30m1 stop
Jetstar Logo
10:55 - 18:55ZQN-BNE
10h 00m1 stop
$526Jetstar
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Tue, 29 Jul - Wed, 13 Aug
Jetstar Logo
23:20 - 12:20BNE-ZQN
11h 00m1 stop
Jetstar Logo
10:55 - 18:55ZQN-BNE
10h 00m1 stop
$538Jetstar
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Tue, 12 Aug - Thu, 21 Aug
Virgin Australia Logo
11:40 - 17:10BNE-ZQN
3h 30mdirect
Virgin Australia Logo
18:05 - 20:00ZQN-BNE
3h 55mdirect
$557Virgin Australia
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Thu, 28 Aug - Tue, 2 Sep
Virgin Australia Logo
11:40 - 17:10BNE-ZQN
3h 30mdirect
Virgin Australia Logo
18:05 - 20:00ZQN-BNE
3h 55mdirect
$572Virgin Australia
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Thu, 21 Aug - Wed, 27 Aug
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11:40 - 17:10BNE-ZQN
3h 30mdirect
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16:50 - 08:30ZQN-BNE
17h 40m1 stop
Tue, 29 Jul - Tue, 12 Aug
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23:20 - 16:10BNE-ZQN
14h 50m1 stop
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14:15 - 08:30ZQN-BNE
20h 15m1 stop
Mon, 8 Dec - Mon, 15 Dec
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09:05 - 15:35BNE-ZQN
3h 30mdirect
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16:30 - 17:15ZQN-BNE
3h 45mdirect
$657Emirates
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KAYAK's insights & trends for Brisbane to Queenstown flights

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from Brisbane to Queenstown to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from Brisbane to Queenstown?

The average price of all round-trip flights from Brisbane to Queenstown clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.

If you are looking for a flight deal from Brisbane to Queenstown, look for departures on Tuesdays and avoid leaving on a Sunday, as it's usually the priciest day. When flying back from Queenstown, Saturday is the cheapest day to fly and Thursday is the most expensive.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Brisbane to Queenstown?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Brisbane to Queenstown, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the median of all values for each month.

The cheapest month for flights from Brisbane to Queenstown is May, where tickets cost $612 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are December and September, where the average cost of round-trip tickets is $797 and $767 respectively.

Can I save money by flying with a stopover from Brisbane to Queenstown?

The average return price for all direct flights, flights with one stopover, and flights with two stopovers for the route found by users searching on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks.

Yes, flying with a stopover may cost you more time, but you can also save money on the route, with a 1 stop stopover the cheapest option at $1,677 on average.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Brisbane to Queenstown?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights from Brisbane to Queenstown, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the average of all the values for each week.

To get a below average price on the flight from Brisbane to Queenstown, you should book around 7 weeks before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 22 weeks before departure.


Good to know

Low seasonMay
High seasonAugust
Cheapest flight$281
Best time to beat the crowds (15% less expensive on average)
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 2% lower on average.
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When to book flights from Brisbane to Queenstown

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from Brisbane to Queenstown based on our flight data from the last year. Discover the cheapest month and even day to fly.
Estimated return price
KAYAK looks at all historical flight data for each date to provide a predicted price for one-way trips or returns with a duration up to 40 days. While we try to provide actual minimum prices for each date, some prices are predictions and actual prices may differ.

FAQs for booking flights from Brisbane to Queenstown

  • What is the cheapest flight from Brisbane to Queenstown?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from Brisbane to Queenstown was $182 for a one-way ticket and $323 for a return.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from Brisbane to Queenstown?

    The Boeing 737-800 Passenger/BBJ2 (winglets) is the aircraft model that flies most regularly on the Brisbane to Queenstown flight route.

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from Brisbane to Queenstown?

    Star Alliance, and oneworld are the airline alliances operating flights between Brisbane and Queenstown, with oneworld being the most commonly used for this route.

  • On which days can I fly direct from Brisbane to Queenstown?

    There are direct flights from Brisbane to Queenstown on a daily basis.

  • Which is the best airline for flights from Brisbane to Queenstown, Emirates or Virgin Australia?

    The two airlines most popular with KAYAK users for flights from Brisbane to Queenstown are Emirates and Virgin Australia. With an average price for the route of $882 and an overall rating of 8.1, Emirates is the most popular choice. Virgin Australia is also a great choice for the route, with an average price of $734 and an overall rating of 7.5.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Brisbane to Queenstown?

    KAYAK is a travel search engine. That means we look across the web to find the best prices we can find for our users. With over 2 billion flight queries processed yearly, we are able to display a variety of prices and options on flights from Brisbane to Queenstown.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from Brisbane to Queenstown?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to Queenstown from Brisbane is likely to change within 7 days, so travelers know whether to wait or book now.

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights from Brisbane to Queenstown?

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional return ticket. You could then fly to Queenstown with an airline and back to Brisbane with another airline.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from Brisbane to Queenstown?

    Sometimes travel dates aren't set in stone. If your preferred travel dates have some wiggle room, flexible dates will show you all the options when flying to Queenstown from Brisbane up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

KAYAK’s top tips for finding a cheap flight from Brisbane to Queenstown

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found flights on this route for $380 or less one-way and $712 or less round-trip.

Prefer to fly direct from Brisbane to Queenstown Intl?

 
Direct data is based off flight results for the next 60 days. Find direct flights from all airlines flying direct from Brisbane to Queenstown Intl.
Find which airlines fly direct from Brisbane Airport to Queenstown Intl Airport, which days they fly and book direct flights.

Direct departures

Brisbane to Queenstown Intl

Monday

Air Canada, Qatar Airways, Singapore Airlines, +1 more

Air Canada, Qatar Airways, +2 more

Tuesday

Air Canada, Emirates, Qantas Airways, +3 more

Air Canada, Emirates, +4 more

Wednesday

Air Canada, Emirates, Finnair, +4 more

Air Canada, Emirates, +5 more

Thursday

Air Canada, Emirates, Qantas Airways, +3 more

Air Canada, Emirates, +4 more

Friday

Air Canada, Qatar Airways, Singapore Airlines, +1 more

Air Canada, Qatar Airways, +2 more

Saturday

Emirates, Finnair, Qantas Airways, +3 more

Emirates, Finnair, +4 more

Sunday

Air Canada, Emirates, Qantas Airways, +3 more

Air Canada, Emirates, +4 more

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Direct returns

Queenstown Intl to Brisbane

Monday

Air Canada, Qatar Airways, Singapore Airlines, +1 more

Air Canada, Qatar Airways, +2 more

Tuesday

Air Canada, Emirates, Qantas Airways, +3 more

Air Canada, Emirates, +4 more

Wednesday

Air Canada, Emirates, Finnair, +4 more

Air Canada, Emirates, +5 more

Thursday

Air Canada, Emirates, Qantas Airways, +3 more

Air Canada, Emirates, +4 more

Friday

Qatar Airways, Singapore Airlines, Virgin Australia

Qatar Airways, Singapore Airlines, +1 more

Saturday

Air Canada, Emirates, Finnair, +4 more

Air Canada, Emirates, +5 more

Sunday

Air Canada, Emirates, Qantas Airways, +3 more

Air Canada, Emirates, +4 more

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Reviews of the top 5 airlines flying from Brisbane to Queenstown

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Brisbane to Queenstown. Airline scores are aggregated from all reviews left by passengers on KAYAK after flying with an airline. KAYAK doesn’t show reviews that are older than 5 years. Learn how KAYAK collects reviews.
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Brisbane to Queenstown? KAYAK airline reviews give an overall score for each airline based on loads of factors, including comfort, boarding, in-flight entertainment and more, to make your decision easier. See airline scores according to verified KAYAK customer reviews.
8.1
EmiratesOverall score based on 3288 reviews
8.2Entertainment
7.8Food
8.0Comfort
8.1Boarding
8.3Crew
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The flight from Beijing to Dubai was good. The flight from Dubai to Barcelona was excellent because of the staff on board.

8.0 ExcellentAnonymous, June 2025PEK - DXB
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The flight from Beijing to Dubai was good. The flight from Dubai to Barcelona was excellent because of the staff on board.

The queue for checking for economy passengers was enormous! Only one desk open for economy faith s queue a mile long, whilst business and first class desks empty and unemployed. Will seriously consider changing to another next trip. Disappointed customer.

They should resume the fast track for business / first class passengers

They cancelled our flight, rebooked, cancelled that one. We are now flying New Zealand Air and need a refund please. How do we get it?

Wifi was not operational for the whole trip. Other than this, flight was well received .

Emirates is superb service. The A380 was very comfortable. The cabin crew is really helpful

Over - amazing. The aircraft is somewhat old on this route.

Food no so good. Extra charge to much for front seats cost me £163 then other people sat near me for nothing 🤬

Everything I was good except food quality is very poor

Very uncomfortable aircraft. No free entertainment or drinks. Food okay. Won't fly with them again.

I flew United from San Francisco to Auckland. My connecting flight from Auckland to Christchurch was canceled with no explanation. I was finally told the cancellation was due to fog. Even though it was clear when we landed. I am from San Francisco, I know what fog is! And I didn't see any fog. I was told the next available flight was 7 hours later. Unacceptable, they should have had a flight ready to go as soon as it was deemed safe to take off.

Our original flight was cancelled from SFO to AKL on 6/16/25. So we had to stay overnight at a hotel after a 12-hour layover plus 3-hour delay before the cancellation. Then had to fly to LA and then to AKL the following day losing an entire day of our vacation in NZ, that we can never get back.

Two hours was not enough time to transition from the international to domestic terminal. You have to go through customs, a biological hazard check, gather your luggage, take a bus to the domestic terminal and recheck your luggage. The bus was slow and crowded and the lines to recheck your bags were very long. We missed our connecting flight. Initially, the Air New Zealand officials were not helpful at all in helping to get us on another flight. Told us we would have to buy another ticket for a flight 11 hours later. Found another agent that was more helpful. He helped arrange to get us on standby for another flight three hours later. Had to ride in jump seats next to the flight attendants, but at least we eventually got to out destination.

Full flight. Flight attendants were harried. Otherwise, fine for the typical cramped seating conditions in coach.

The 10hr flight was a comfortable as it could be in row 57. The food was just very bad….bland and soggy!

I love the “boarding from the back” idea - it’s so much better than the “Zones” idea that many others use. Also, the inflight wifi was a first for me! Very nice to have on a 13-hour flight!

The issue was with getting our boarding pases. There were issues with our arrangements that were made through Kayak. I am sorry to say that we will not use you again because of this. The flight itself was good and the flight attendants excellent.

Arriving at Coolangatta, rows 20 forward, took the airbridge across to the terminal. It was suggested to those from rows 21 back, that we take the rear stairs and to be careful crossing the tarmac. That was all well and good. However, when we got across to the terminal we then had to climb three large flights of stairs to meet up with those coming across the airbridge. No elevator! There were people carrying babies and elderly carrying hand luggage that needed assistance from others.. There was no option to turn back.

It was good for a short domestic flight. As no food ar entertainment provided, there should be a n/a rating available for those.

USB charging ports did not work on any of Air New Zealand flights

I tried to check in online but was unable to do so. I stood in line for nearly two hours to check in. American Airlines was understaffed. When I finally got to the kiosk to check in, I was still unable to check in. No AA staff was available to help. Finally one of the airport security agents who was helping passengers became of lack of AA Staff told me: “I think the reason you can’t check in is that you are starting your name with an upper case letter when you write it. Just write it with all lower case letters.” That did allow me to check in. HOW COULD ANYONE POSSIBLY KNOW THAT IF THEY USE AN INITIAL UPPER CASE LETTER TO SPELL THEIR OWN NAME, AA WOULD NOT ALLOW THEM TO CHECK IN?????? Then I had to wait in line over half an hour again to drop off my baggage. Although I arrived at the airport 3 hours early, by the time I got to the gate, they had already started boarding.

One of the oldest most uncomfortable "lay down" seats I've ever experienced. Old plane and old seats that don't lay flat. The seat back does not even recline - at all. Instead the legrest awkwardly extends to fill the gap between a small cubby into which you must insert your feet/legs. I am 5' 11" and could not lay straight but had to tuck my knees. Ticket was also very expensive. Would not recommend flying business/first on Finair from Melbourne to Bangkok and will not do so again myself.

The wifi was out. Otherwise it was great flight. Richard, as CSM, was excellent.

Traditional economy class. Not a full flight so spare seats. Food and drinks were good

Was bumped to a later flight because of inefficiency on part of the airline.

Inflight entertainment, poor that there are no headrest screens on aircraft used for an international flight.

The Emerits/Qantas flight was cancelled to Wellington. We need a refund. Had to buy another airline ticket. How do we get the refund. Still not in Wellington.

Delayed QF59 flight once again, Qantas doesn't fail in maintaining there delayed departures and arrivals. USB points do not work nor do the power point sockets on the plane, Qantas staff admitted that on the flight. Don't expect to your charge devices. Saving grace, was the ice cream. Bottom line, if you expect to fly to HND and make it on time avoid Qantas and if you're interested in ice cream - visit 7/11.

Pretty excellent. I don’t know what the pilot could have done better with the bumping ( there was a storm) nor what happened to my ears coming down into bendigo. It doesn’t happen coming down into Sydney just the return flight. I wonder why?

Touch screens were very difficult to use, generally being laggy and unresponsive- it was quite an art to get it to play the thing you wanted rather than some thing at random. Selection of films and Tv was good when touchscreen decided to finally respond.

4.5 hr international flight. We got a glass of water. Ranks up there with Ryan Air, Easy Jet, Spirit and Frontier. Expected better.

Gluten free options less explicit on business class, but great service

Very good… seems the virgin staff particularly in the lounge and in flight exceeded expectations.

I liked everything about the experience but would have liked some free snacks!

Crew was great but flight was delayed almost three hours due to a technical issue and we had to go back to the terminal and wait for another one.

Being told why we delayed three hours and not even given an apology by someone. Not a word. Not my airline of choice ever.

Checked Baggage line up was long but moved quickly, rest of the process, boarding, crew was excellent

Virgin has always provided a smooth and comfortable flight. This one was no different. Seats are comfortable. Staff are great. This is my favourite airline.

Virgin changed the flight to an Alliance flight. Smaller plane, tea coffee and water the only refreshments available and not sure what happened to the extra money I paid to sit in a selected seat with extra leg room. This is obviously a regular switch as it happened on our flight there and back. Do not recommend.

Late boarding, late departure due to weather and slow boarding, packed 5+hour flight, only 2 toilets for main cabin, tight leg room, no free food except tea, coffee, and water, arrived 75 minutes late.

Overall good trip I find seats a bit hard. We were waiting on board for about an hour for 2 passengers with some document issue. This main our arrival late for our pickup person.

15kg allowance is outrageous. Change of time a few days before departure and more than 2 hours of delay in the end. The worse we’ve taken so far in Oceania.

They added the weight of my back to the carryon luggage and charged me NZ$75 for being over 7 kg.

stuck in the aircraft for over three hours due to engineering work, significantly delayed and made a lot of passengers missed the connecting transport, no mention any compensation

Very quiet plane!! One of the quietest planes we have been on.

Jetsatar refused to take my foldable stroller in the plane, despite following all the rules on dimensions and packaging. Similar thing happened on our previous fight. However, at that instance, they offered to check in the stroller. At this fight, the staff was rude, trying to rush us to board the flight. They made excuses that the stroller was not allowed and even offer to leave it behind and ship it back at our own cost. Fortunately, we had someone else attending. Since the flight was about to take off, they left it behind and send it back to us on the next available flight.

Overall, it was good. The only concern was that I couldn't charge my phone because the USB port didn't work after we took off. One of the crew members tried to restart it but never came back to me with an update.

Comfortable seats, boarding was easy and staff were very nice.

Flight was fine but a domestic flight was called by Jetstar international. This meant going through immigration and custom scanning twice. Long queues were experienced which were frustrating. We were using a wheelchair and exit at Perth needed a scissor lift as no air bridge provided. No fast lane at Perth for wheelchair. The staff were helpful but this system is poor.

The crew were great. The seat was older than an old Holden with a big metal bar sticking right into my back. The passenger next to me complained that hers was the same. The pre purchase system for food was disappointing as the pie/quiche took 20 mins to warm up, arrived too hot and with no utensils. It was one of the most uncomfortable flights I've ever been on.

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