Compare trains, coaches, flights and ferries from Sunshine Coast to Melbourne. From €86.53, fastest 5h 28m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.
Travelling from Sunshine Coast to Melbourne costs €86.53 at the cheapest and takes 5h 28m door to door at the fastest, across 1 mode and 2 operators. The route covers 1,499 km. Cheapest is by flight, fastest is by flight.
Journey times below are door to door, so they include getting to the terminal and away from it at the other end. Fares are the cheapest we currently sell on 2 October 2026.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flight | 5h 33m | 2h 23m | 3h 10m | €148.23 | 368.8 kg | 8 |
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Changes at Logan City, with 70 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 26h 27mCO2 45.7 kgChanges 1Changeable for a fee
Door to door 5h 33mCO2 368.8 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes
Live from the operators' own published timetables, through the open transit feeds they publish. Times and services are real. Fares are modelled until our booking connectors are live.
Live from the operators' own published timetables, through the open transit feeds they publish. Times and services are real. Fares are modelled until our booking connectors are live.
Live from our own engine, refreshed on every request. The cheapest days for each way of travelling are marked.
| Cheapest fare by mode and day for Sunshine Coast to Melbourne | Sun13 Sept | Mon14 Sept | Tue15 Sept | Wed16 Sept | Thu17 Sept | Fri18 Sept | Sat19 Sept | Sun20 Sept | Mon21 Sept | Tue22 Sept | Wed23 Sept | Thu24 Sept | Fri25 Sept | Sat26 Sept |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coach | €192.13 | €166.28 | €177.83 | €151.43 | €162.98 | €137.13 | €137.13 | €124.48 | €95.88 | €114.58 | €90.38 | €121.18 | €107.43 | €148.13 |
| Train | €311.64 | €231.89 | €264.89 | €201.64 | €268.74 | €239.59 | €219.79 | €170.29 | €154.89 | €143.34 | €168.64 | €206.59 | €182.39 | €217.04 |
| Flight | €316.38 | €223.16 | €223.75 | €215.49 | €241.45 | €234.96 | €243.81 | €177.14 | €148.23 | €151.77 | €156.49 | €201.33 | €178.91 | €185.99 |
Cheapest day: 2026-10-02 · €86.53
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Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
The same journey priced on the fifteenth of each of the next six months.
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
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| Operator | From |
|---|---|
| Bonza Airlines | €129.94 |
| Virgin Australia | €124.63 |
Every part of the total, so the number at checkout is the number here.
| Part | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Operator fare | €75.50 | 87% |
| Taxes | €7.55 | 9% |
| Supplier fees | €1.49 | 2% |
| Our service fee | €1.99 | 2% |
| Total you pay | €86.53 | 100% |
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The fastest journey from Sunshine Coast to Melbourne takes 5h 28m door to door, of which 2h 23m is spent moving, on the flight. Most services take around 5h 37m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.
The cheapest fare from Sunshine Coast to Melbourne is €86.53, checked on 12 September 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €206.05. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.
The cheapest way from Sunshine Coast to Melbourne is by flight, at €148.23 for one passenger on 2 October 2026. That journey takes 5h 33m door to door. Cheaper is rarely faster on this corridor, and the comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs against what it saves.
Fares from Sunshine Coast to Melbourne bottom out around 45 days before departure, at €68.37. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 181 percent, measured on 12 September 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Wednesday is the cheapest day to depart from Sunshine Coast to Melbourne, at €92.57. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, checked on 12 September 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
December is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Sunshine Coast to Melbourne, at €70.02 for one passenger. Each month is priced on its fifteenth, so the comparison is like for like rather than a mix of weekends and midweek departures.
2 operators sell services from Sunshine Coast to Melbourne across 1 mode: Bonza Airlines, Virgin Australia. Journey times, fares and fare conditions differ between them, and the operator table on this page compares all of them on speed, flexibility and what is provided on board.
67 percent of the services we sell from Sunshine Coast to Melbourne are direct. The rest connect at Logan City, Gold Coast, Brisbane, Toowoomba, with about 70 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.
Services from Sunshine Coast to Melbourne by flight leave from Sunshine Coast MCY and arrive at Melbourne AVV. Allow about 3h 10m in total for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one, which is already included in every door to door time on this page.
0 of the 2 operators we sell from Sunshine Coast to Melbourne allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs €5.00. The operator table on this page names which is which, and the condition is shown again before you pay.
Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.
Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modelled number pass for a filed one.
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