Bangkok to Cairns flight

Flights from Bangkok to Cairns start at €516.39 and take 14h 19m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Bangkok to Cairns starts at €516.39 and takes 14h 19m door to door, run by 4 operators over 6,649 km, with around 2 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 21 days before departure.

Checked September 23, 2026Priced for October 14, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 14h 19mDoor to door
  • 9h 48mMoving
  • €672.74 to €1,681.64From
  • 07:30 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 2Per day
  • 1935.6 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on October 14, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€672.74 to €1,681.64 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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Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €1,681.64Thu24
  2. about €1,511.13Fri25
  3. about €1,443.28Sat26
  4. about €1,123.50Sun27
  5. about €926.44Mon28
  6. about €862.13Tue29
  7. about €1,002.55Wed30
  8. about €960.66Thu1
  9. about €783.07Fri2
  10. about €892.81Sat3
  11. about €809.03Sun4
  12. about €679.82Mon5
  13. about €672.74Tue6
  14. about €708.73Wed7

Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on October 14, 2026

Cheapest€516.39
  1. Jetstar Asia Airways JA897007:302h 22m10:52Suvarnabhumi Airport BKKSingapore Changi Airport SIN
  2. Singapore Airlines SA142112:137h 26m21:39Singapore Changi Airport SINCairns International Airport CNS

Changes at Singapore, with 81 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 14h 19mCO2 1824.1 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

The flight gets you into Cairns. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.

A hotel room

A room in Cairns for the night the flight gets in

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Booking window

When to book Bangkok to Cairns

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €613.1590 days
  2. €547.0760 days
  3. €564.1845 days
  4. €582.4730 days
  5. €516.3921 days
  6. €708.7314 days
  7. €1,002.557 days
  8. €1,443.283 days
  9. €1,681.641 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €516.39.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 226 percent. The most expensive point is €1,681.64, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 21 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €809.03Sun
  2. €679.82Mon
  3. €672.74Tue
  4. €708.73Wed
  5. €960.66Thu
  6. €783.07Fri
  7. €892.81Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Bangkok

Air
  • BKK
  • DMK

Cairns

Air
  • CNS
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
0% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 100% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 6,649 km against 6,028 km in a straight line, a detour of 17 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Singapore, Hong Kong. The gap between arriving and leaving is 81 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 12 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Bangkok at 07:30 and the last at 07:30, across 2 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Bangkok to Cairns

The questions people actually ask about this trip, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Flight from Bangkok to Cairns take?

The Flight from Bangkok to Cairns takes 14h 19m door to door, of which 9h 48m is spent moving. The route runs 6,649 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.

How much does the Flight from Bangkok to Cairns cost?

The Flight from Bangkok to Cairns starts at €516.39 for one passenger, as of September 23, 2026. A typical fare is €561.23. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Flight from Bangkok to Cairns?

4 operators run the Flight from Bangkok to Cairns: Jetstar Asia Airways, Singapore Airlines, K-Mile Air, Cathay Pacific. Between them they file around 2 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Flight from Bangkok to Cairns use?

The Flight from Bangkok to Cairns leaves from Suvarnabhumi Airport BKK 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.

When should I book the Flight from Bangkok to Cairns?

Fares for the Flight from Bangkok to Cairns bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €516.39. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 226 percent, measured on September 23, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from Bangkok to Cairns produce?

The Flight from Bangkok to Cairns produces about 1935.6 kg of CO2 per passenger over 6649 km, which works out at roughly 291 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.

Where these numbers come from

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 labeled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Bangkok to Cairns on September 23, 2026: 6649 km of route against 6028 km in a straight line, 2 services a day, 4 operators a cheapest fare of €516.39, and 14h 19m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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