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Find cheap flights from Queenstown to New Zealand from $50

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Auckland
Aucklanddirect$133
Christchurch
Christchurchdirect$227
Wellington
Wellingtondirect$106

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November

High season

June

Cheapest flight

$50
Best time to beat the crowds (8% less expensive on average)
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 12% lower on average.
Flight from Queenstown to Wellington

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  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Queenstown to New Zealand?

    KAYAK is a travel search engine. That means we look across the web to find the best prices we can find for our users. With over 2 billion flight queries processed yearly, we are able to display a variety of prices and options on flights from Queenstown to New Zealand.

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    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to New Zealand from Queenstown is likely to change within 7 days, so travelers know whether to wait or book now.

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights from Queenstown to New Zealand?

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional return ticket. You could then fly to New Zealand with an airline and back to Queenstown with another airline.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from Queenstown to New Zealand?

    Sometimes travel dates aren't set in stone. If your preferred travel dates have some wiggle room, flexible dates will show you all the options when flying to New Zealand from Queenstown up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

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Top tips for finding cheap flights to New Zealand

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found tickets from Queenstown to the following destinations at these prices or less: Auckland $167 one-way - $317 round-trip; Christchurch $182 one-way - $286 round-trip; Wellington $165 one-way - $238 round-trip
  • Morning departure is around 21% cheaper than an evening flight, on average*.
*Average of the lowest prices shown in KAYAK’s search results for departures within the next 30 days

Top airlines flying from Queenstown to New Zealand

 
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Queenstown to New Zealand? 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 647 reviews
8.4boarding
7.7food
8.8crew
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.

Great meal. Best seats ever! They need to teach other airlines how to do that.

Overall excellent but the Captain kept the seat belt sign on for far too long, especially at the beginning and end of the flight. It was 2 hours after take-off before the crew were able to start the service (on an 11 hour night flight, reducing our sleeping time) and the seat belt sign on went on during breakfast (90 mins before landing) and was not turned off again until we landed. This made for an uncomfortable journey of trying to limit fluid intake because it was unclear when the toilets would be available for use.

Food was not good. We asked for Muslim food and it was weird tasteless type of boiled veges.

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

There was a snafu with confirming seats at check which left us in limbo for the second leg of our trip. I believe the ANZ app is not well integrated with the systems at the terminal resulting in this disconcerting error.

Flight attendants are always pleasant and helpful. Pilot kept us updated.

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

For some reason the cabin was kept very cold. Unlike my flight over which i would say was excellent this was a long, cold flight home.

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.

I was allocated an exit row seat and was told to move so it could be given away to someone who had purchased two extra legroom seats and one regular seat but wanted the three to sit together. I was also charged for entertainment after booking but before checking in, and the ground crew couldn't do anything about refunding it. When the whole plane was given access to the entertainment as an apology for the flight being four hours late, I was told they couldn't do anything about that either, so I was charged for something I didn't want even though it would have been free anyway

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.

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

Worst airline ever. No need to go into detail as everything is terrible. Do not do it - whatever the price.

Captains address to passengers was excellent. Knee room in seating was very uncomfortable.

We were visiting from California and did not know Melbourne. When we arrived at the main airport, where we also arrived when we flew in, we found to our horror that we were at the wrong airport! There was no obvious to us indication that there were two airports that Jetstar flew out of in Melbourne, or even that there were two airports. The staff tried to find us seats to Sydney but none were available, so we got an Uber and went to the other airport and managed to catch the original flight. The staff were great and very helpful, including figuring out how to check what bag to not have to pay extra for the luggage. I was contrasted with Ryan Air that we had flown with in Europe a few months previously and been treated as cattle and no smiles, no help, just line up and pay. We were impressed by the friendliness and the help extended to us.

Flight departing too early at 06.15 Difficult to get to airport

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Recent return flight deals

17/5Fri
directJetstar
1h 15mZQN-WLG
19/5Sun
directJetstar
1h 25mWLG-ZQN
$106
6/6Thu
directJetstar
1h 50mZQN-AKL
10/6Mon
directJetstar
1h 55mAKL-ZQN
$133
6/6Thu
directJetstar
1h 50mZQN-AKL
10/6Mon
directJetstar
1h 50mAKL-ZQN
$138
10/5Fri
directJetstar
1h 15mZQN-WLG
12/5Sun
directJetstar
1h 25mWLG-ZQN
$158
23/7Tue
directJetstar
1h 50mZQN-AKL
23/7Tue
directJetstar
1h 50mAKL-ZQN
$168
8/6Sat
directAir New Zealand
1h 10mZQN-CHC
9/6Sun
directAir New Zealand
1h 15mCHC-ZQN
$227
28/6Fri
directAir New Zealand
1h 50mZQN-AKL
30/6Sun
directAir New Zealand
1h 55mAKL-ZQN
$228
8/6Sat
directAir New Zealand
1h 10mZQN-CHC
9/6Sun
directAir New Zealand
1h 15mCHC-ZQN
$232
31/5Fri
directAir New Zealand
0h 55mZQN-CHC
3/6Mon
directAir New Zealand
1h 00mCHC-ZQN
$235
6/6Thu
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Queenstown - New Zealand Flights

Departure:

Queenstown (ZQN)New Zealand

Return flight deals:

New Zealand - Queenstown

Cabin classes:

$10,189
$5,400
$42