Direct flights from Osaka (KIX) to Cairns (CNS): 6 nonstop departures observed each week across 1 airline. No cancellations were recorded across the 5 tracked flights. The nonstop covers 5,814 km, an estimated 7 hours 57 minutes in the air. Measured by Pro Flight Search from live flight boards at Osaka and Cairns. Updated 14 November 2026 at 13:22 UTC.
The KIX board at 22:22 shows departure at 22:15 instead of 21:45, gate 6 (T1 - B). Status: boarding.
Checked KIX board 22:22 · CNS board 22:48
route health from live KIX and CNS delay boards
0 of 5 tracked legs cancelled in the sample. Will a delayed flight be cancelled? →
Each mark is a scheduled departure at its origin-local time, observed operating in the last 7 days. Today is highlighted.
Flights JQ16 21:45 Mo Tu Th Fr Sa Su
Actual board outcomes rather than schedules, paired departure and arrival per flight and day.
Conditions are tightest at KIX and CNS: a 29% chance of a 15+ minute delay. In this weather, the more delayed of the two airports is typically about +3 min. Both figures come from the two airports' delay records in similar weather. See live delays → · Weather risk by airport →
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Pro Flight Search records official board updates for nonstop KIX to CNS flights through the day: schedules, estimates, gate pushes and actual departures. The verdict above comes from operated flights, so it reflects what this route does rather than what the timetable promises.
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Pro Flight Search: Osaka (KIX) to Cairns (CNS) route reliability, measured from operated flights on official airport boards.
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Smooth skies ahead. The arrival side at CNS is the weaker end, route health score 94/100. The airports section above carries the live status and delay window at both ends.
Great-circle distance is 5,814 km. With typical jet cruise speed plus taxi, climb and descent, expect roughly 440–528 min gate-to-gate on this route.
Jetstar Airways runs the route with about 6 flights a week (sun, mon, tue, thu, fri, sat). Since one carrier owns the route, a single disruption tends to ripple through the day.
A blend of departure-side delay at KIX and arrival-side delay at CNS, computed from rolling delay windows (refreshed every 40 minutes) with a daily-rollup fallback. Current MVFR, IFR, or LIFR endpoint weather caps the score when flight rules can limit throughput. Higher is healthier: 100 means operations are clean at both ends.
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