Flights from Canberra to Cairns start at €223.16 and take 8h 17m at their fastest.
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The Flights from Canberra to Cairns starts at €223.16 and takes 8h 17m door to door, run by 2 operators over 2,404 km, with around 1 departure a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
First and last are taken from the services we sell on 12 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.
€253.25 to €646.78 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Typical for this corridor. The operator sets the price on the day.
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Cathay Pacific CP488909:132h 24m11:37Brisbane International Airport BNECairns International Airport CNSChanges at Brisbane, with 64 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 8h 17mCO2 502.4 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
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Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flight | 8h 17m | 4h 3m | 4h 14m | €223.16 | 502.4 kg | 1 |
| Train | 8h 19m | 5h 6m | 3h 13m | €176.34 | 473.0 kg | 2 |
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The Flight from Canberra to Cairns takes 8h 17m door to door, of which 4h 3m is spent moving. The route runs 2,404 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.
The Flight from Canberra to Cairns starts at €223.16 for one passenger, as of 23 September 2026. A typical fare is €223.16. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
2 operators run the Flight from Canberra to Cairns: Virgin Australia, Cathay Pacific. Between them they file around 1 departure a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.
The Flight from Canberra to Cairns leaves from Canberra Airport CBR and arrives at Cairns International Airport CNS. Allow about 3h 10m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.
Travelling from Canberra to Cairns by Train costs €176.34 and takes 8h 19m door to door, against 8h 17m by Flight. Which is better depends on whether the money or the hours matter more on this trip. The comparison table on this page shows every mode side by side.
Fares for the Flight from Canberra to Cairns bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €192.84. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 229 percent, measured on 23 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
The Flight from Canberra to Cairns produces about 502.4 kg of CO2 per passenger over 2404 km, which works out at roughly 209 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.
Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.
Observed service A carrier record names this operator on this pair, carried through unchanged.
Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labelled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.
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8h 17m
4h 3m
€253.25 to €646.78
07:30 to 07:30
1
502.4 kg
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