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Find cheap flights from Queenstown to the Cook Islands from $881

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Rarotonga
Rarotonga2 stops$881

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Low season

January

High season

May

Cheapest flight

$881
Best time to beat the crowds but there is an average 22% increase in price.
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 36% lower on average.
Flight from Queenstown to Rarotonga

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

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Top airlines flying from Queenstown to the Cook Islands

 
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Queenstown to the Cook Islands? 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.
8.2
Air New ZealandOverall score based on 640 reviews
8.8Crew
7.7Food
8.4Boarding
8.1Comfort
7.9Entertainment
Airline reviews

Short flight so no entertainment, turbulence so no food service - overall flight as expected

8.0 ExcellentMichelle, Apr 2024NPL - AKL
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Short flight so no entertainment, turbulence so no food service - overall flight as expected

All was good, the only thing was it didn't run on time.

The staff and crew on board were excellent. Business class however, was very weird. I thought we would have individual pods, but the way it was set up was unexpected. Not very private and If you wanted to lay down, you had to have an entire bed made up for you by the crew, rather than how Delta one works where you could just lie down whenever you feel like it. It was a 16 hour flight. I chose not to have my bed made, and that turned out to be a good idea because everybody who had their bed made had to wait for the crew to roll up their mattresses. So strange!

Crew were pleasant, happy to be there and were a joy to be around. Entire operation was professional, well thought out and ran like a Swiss clock.

United flight from SFO to PDX was cancelled. I will ask for a refund. Had to book on Alaska

They announced food service but then never came around. We also couldn’t land so kept trying to get to runway and then had to come up and go around happened like 3 times and cause the child next to me to start throwing up

Good food and entertainment options. Great Staff that were all welcoming and caregiving.

The recline on the seat in front of me came back so that I was staring at the top of the man’s head in front of me the whole trip. He refused to bring his seat back up twice every time he was instructed to do so and only relented when he had a tray of good in front of him. And then right back in my lap!!! Horrible man!! I complained to the staff multiple times, but no one would address the issue. Otherwise, it would have been a perfect flight.

Flight was canceled due to technical issue shortly before the check-in counters opened. Passengers were rebooked on a flight three days later. Request to be accommodated on Air Tahiti Nui could not be processed. Customer service sorted out the refund after calling and being put on hold for almost an hour.

Carring crew, nice ambiance of the cabin, comfortable beds, good food well served. We liked everything.

a constant reminder that you need to work harder so you can avoid this airline

Note that food has to be purchased in flight. No free food. And no entertainment in flight. So I’ve treated these two items as okay which, in this case, means neutral/not applicable.

Would be better if can provide small free snacks on a long flight

Boarding was easy and unstressful, though the early "final call" was a bit off-putting. The crew were pleasant, and the seats were comfortable. The prices for food and drink were reasonable, apart from tea and coffee, where simple percolated coffee was charged at espresso prices. Deboarding was OK, though some Jetstar passengers appear to have a bad habit of pushing forward from their assigned rows, making it more difficult to get out for passengers that have paid a premium to sit up-front. Jetstar might want to look to address this to stop it from spreading.

The price difference/saving isn't sufficient to compensate the experience difference, don't recommend unless flight is under 3 hours. Huge queues for check in and the priority lane of other ailines blocked checked in Jetstar passengers from proceeding through to screening. Gate change to a "dungeon gate" that didn't have toilets in the vicinity. 45minute delay in boarding, no updates or explaination, let alone apology for any inconvenience. 1 scanner working for a full fight to board, no coordination. Loaded on to crowded buses to get on the plane in the middle of the tarmac, up stairs with no explaination. 4 bus trips. No system for boarding in sections. Over an hour late departing. Nothing complimentary, not even water or in-flight music. Pay wave not available and no cash sales. Staff onboard were friendly and professional.

It was a super crowded time to travel out of Melbourne, but the flight was OK

Worst flying experience of my life. FIVE HOURS delayed! Rude and unhelpful staff and poor communication from the grounds team. Never flying Jetstar again

Worst experience ever flying Melbourne to Phuket. 5 hours delayed! Didn’t land till 1am in the morning. Staff were rude and unhelpful

Plane was late leaving darwin so we didn’t get home till 1130pm 2nd time in a fortnight that has happened. Hard when you have to work the next day

It may have been a result of earlier issues with a previous plane, causing delays, but the staff were not nearly as smiley as the previous Jetstar flight I was on. Also, they started boarding before the plane was empty...so we moved from one line into another line. They should have just waited until the plane was empty to avoid waiting in two lines.

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Recent return flight deals

21/8Wed
2 stops
16h 55mZQN-RAR
28/8Wed
1 stop
16h 25mRAR-ZQN
$881
21/8Wed
1 stop
11h 45mZQN-RAR
28/8Wed
1 stop
16h 25mRAR-ZQN
$893
21/8Wed
2 stopsAir New Zealand
16h 55mZQN-RAR
27/8Tue
2 stopsAir New Zealand
14h 40mRAR-ZQN
$959
21/8Wed
2 stopsAir New Zealand
16h 55mZQN-RAR
27/8Tue
1 stopAir New Zealand
18h 30mRAR-ZQN
$971
21/8Wed
1 stopAir New Zealand
11h 45mZQN-RAR
27/8Tue
1 stopAir New Zealand
13h 10mRAR-ZQN
$984
24/5Fri
1 stopJetstar
26h 15mZQN-RAR
27/5Mon
1 stopJetstar
14h 10mRAR-ZQN
$993
24/5Fri
1 stopJetstar
26h 15mZQN-RAR
27/5Mon
1 stopJetstar
14h 10mRAR-ZQN
$1,033
21/8Wed
3 stops
26h 45mZQN-RAR
28/8Wed
1 stop
14h 10mRAR-ZQN
$1,078
24/5Fri
2 stopsAir New Zealand
20h 35mZQN-RAR
27/5Mon
1 stopAir New Zealand
19h 50mRAR-ZQN
$1,433
24/5Fri
2 stopsAir New Zealand
23h 35mZQN-RAR
27/5Mon
2 stopsAir New Zealand
19h 55mRAR-ZQN
$1,516

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Queenstown - Cook Islands Flights

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Queenstown (ZQN)New Zealand

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