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Cheap Flights to Great Barrier Reef

Cheapest round-trip prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 72 hours
Cairns
Cairns1 stop$1,004
Hamilton Island
Hamilton Island1 stop$1,336
Townsville
Townsville3 stops$1,163
Hervey Bay
Hervey Bay2 stops$1,799
Bundaberg
Bundaberg2 stops$7,492
Gladstone
Gladstone2 stops$1,670
Cairns
Cairns1 stop$1,004
Hamilton Island
Hamilton Island1 stop$1,336
Townsville
Townsville3 stops$1,163
Hervey Bay
Hervey Bay2 stops$1,799
Bundaberg
Bundaberg2 stops$7,492
Gladstone
Gladstone2 stops$1,670

Book Cheap Great Barrier Reef Plane Tickets

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights to Great Barrier Reef that are departing in the next months. While these flights were available on KAYAK in the last 72 hours, prices and availability are subject to change and deals may expire.
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Recent round-trip flight deals to Great Barrier Reef

Thu, Aug 14 - Mon, Aug 25
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11:55 pm - 11:40 amLAX-CNS
18h 45m1 stop
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12:40 pm - 12:55 pmCNS-LAX
17h 15m1 stop
$1,004Fiji Airways
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Thu, Oct 30 - Sat, Nov 15
Fiji Airways Logo
10:55 pm - 11:35 amHNL-CNS
16h 40m1 stop
Fiji Airways Logo
12:35 pm - 10:10 pmCNS-HNL
29h 35m1 stop
$1,061Fiji Airways
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Fri, Aug 22 - Thu, Sep 4
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11:10 pm - 10:50 pmLAX-CNS
30h 40m1 stop
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7:00 pm - 9:59 pmCNS-LAX
43h 59m2 stops
$1,071
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Thu, Aug 14 - Mon, Aug 25
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11:55 pm - 10:50 pmLAX-CNS
29h 55m2 stops
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6:45 am - 12:55 pmCNS-LAX
23h 10m2 stops
$1,092
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Mon, Sep 22 - Thu, Oct 23
Air Canada Logo
12:20 pm - 3:55 pmLAX-CNS
34h 35m2 stops
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6:00 am - 11:18 amCNS-LAX
22h 18m2 stops
$1,108Air Canada
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Sat, Sep 6 - Thu, Sep 11
Air Canada Logo
7:15 pm - 3:55 pmSEA-CNS
27h 40m2 stops
Air Canada Logo
6:00 am - 2:16 pmCNS-SEA
25h 16m2 stops
$1,108Air Canada
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Sat, Oct 18 - Sat, Nov 1
Qantas Airways Logo
7:40 am - 3:30 pmSEA-CNS
38h 50m2 stops
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5:00 pm - 7:03 pmCNS-SEA
43h 03m2 stops
$1,241Qantas Airways
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Sat, Oct 18 - Tue, Oct 28
Qantas Airways Logo
7:40 am - 11:55 amSEA-CNS
35h 15m2 stops
Qantas Airways Logo
12:35 pm - 10:00 pmCNS-SEA
26h 25m2 stops
$1,242Qantas Airways
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Wed, Oct 22 - Wed, Oct 29
United Airlines Logo
5:26 pm - 7:10 pmSEA-CNS
32h 44m2 stops
United Airlines Logo
6:00 am - 6:25 pmCNS-SEA
29h 25m2 stops
$1,265United Airlines
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Thu, Oct 23 - Fri, Oct 31
United Airlines Logo
3:28 pm - 11:10 amSEA-CNS
26h 42m2 stops
United Airlines Logo
6:00 am - 8:51 pmCNS-SEA
31h 51m2 stops
$1,268United Airlines
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What is the cheapest month to fly from the United States to Great Barrier Reef?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for flights from the United States to Great Barrier Reef, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the median of all values for each month.

The cheapest month for flights from the United States to Great Barrier Reef is August, when tickets cost $1,037 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are April and December, when the average cost of round-trip tickets is $1,505 and $1,493 respectively.


Good to know

Low seasonFebruary
High seasonJune
Cheapest flight$451
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 12% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 22% lower on average.
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FAQs - booking Great Barrier Reef flights

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from the United States to Great Barrier Reef?

    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 the United States to Great Barrier Reef.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from the United States to Great Barrier Reef?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight from the United States to Great Barrier Reef 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 the United States to Great Barrier Reef?

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional round-trip ticket. You could then fly from the United States to Great Barrier Reef with an airline and back with another airline.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from the United States to Great Barrier Reef?

    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 from the United States to Great Barrier Reef up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

  • What is the cheapest day to fly to Great Barrier Reef?

    Based on KAYAK data, the cheapest day to fly to Great Barrier Reef is Thursday where round-trip tickets can be as cheap as $925. On the other hand, the most expensive day to fly is Wednesday, where round-trip prices are $1,231 on average.

  • What is the cheapest time of day to fly to Great Barrier Reef?

    The cheapest time of day to fly to Great Barrier Reef is generally at night, when round-trip flights cost $914 on average. Morning departures are around 100% cheaper than evening flights, on average. The most expensive time of day to fly to Great Barrier Reef is generally in the evening, which is peak travel time and where the average cost of a ticket is $998.

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Reviews of the top 5 airlines flying to Great Barrier Reef

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying to Great Barrier Reef. Airline scores are aggregated from all reviews left by passengers on KAYAK after flying with an airline from the United States to Great Barrier Reef. KAYAK doesn’t show reviews that are older than 5 years. Learn how KAYAK collects reviews.
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from the United States to Great Barrier Reef? 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.
8.0
Fiji AirwaysOverall score based on 201 reviews
8.5Crew
7.5Entertainment
7.5Food
8.1Boarding
8.0Comfort
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They will look to squeeze every penny they can out of you!! Pick your seat$$...bring luggage$$$$... if they could charge you for the air on the plane they would!!

4.0 OkayChristopher, Jun 2025NAN - SYD
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They will look to squeeze every penny they can out of you!! Pick your seat$$...bring luggage$$$$... if they could charge you for the air on the plane they would!!

.very good and as I needed wheelchair assistance all staff excellent.. only suggestion is get rid of those plastic chairs hard to ride in and staff have trouble compared to others. Everything else very good experience. Will use Fiji Air again.

In-flight entertainment options could use a refresh, Consider a tie-up with Spotify for more current music and with IMDB or other service for newer selections/movie ratings.

See previous comments. Didn’t take this flight because my other flight was so delayed. Ending up on two other flights as a result and was more than a day late.

6 hour delay and they didnt try to make up any time during an over 10 hour flight

Very good; seat made ready for bed after meal, a plus since one airline covered the seat at the start.

Entertainment was not good. Seems like liquor should’ve been advertised only beer and wine was even though I saw others getting liquor didn’t realize I could. And the food to me could’ve been a little bit.

Food choices perhaps not the best. Only offered beer and wine, when it appeared other liquor was available. Entertainment wasn’t so good.

They charged me over a $1000 dollars to bring two surfboard bags as check baggage. Inappropriate and I would avoid flying sgain

The experience on Fiji Airways was absolutely amazing. Streamlined. All staff was amazing. Pleasant. Friendly. Extremely helpful.

Five hour flight instead of four hours due to westerly headwinds which wasn’t the fault of Qantas !

The wifi was out. Otherwise it was great flight. Richard, as CSM, was excellent.

Was bumped to a later flight because of inefficiency on part of the airline.

The Emerits/Qantas flight was cancelled to Wellington. We need a refund. Had to buy another airline ticket. How do we get the refund. Still not in Wellington.

Delayed QF59 flight once again, Qantas doesn't fail in maintaining there delayed departures and arrivals. USB points do not work nor do the power point sockets on the plane, Qantas staff admitted that on the flight. Don't expect to your charge devices. Saving grace, was the ice cream. Bottom line, if you expect to fly to HND and make it on time avoid Qantas and if you're interested in ice cream - visit 7/11.

Pretty excellent. I don’t know what the pilot could have done better with the bumping ( there was a storm) nor what happened to my ears coming down into bendigo. It doesn’t happen coming down into Sydney just the return flight. I wonder why?

Loved the staff. The economy seats could have been bigger.

Airport and crew experience was excellent. We had to queue for the runway - no one’s fault, but it did mean we were 30 minutes late leaving

Overall good experience with flight and airport wheelchair staff. Also got Indian food in the flights

I liked the service, the menu, and the comfort of the seats! Even tho we were seated by the bathrooms, the reclining seats and movie selection was very good, my husband and I didn’t mind at all

I learned that seating towards the end of plane that a line forms for the restroom and people use your chair as a hand railing, bumping your seat consistently. I was seated in the aisle. I think that next time if I am towards the back row I would want to sit in the middle or window seat.

The best airline I have ever travel , really good customer service, attention and service !!

United could have one single once of customer service. No human United employee would help me with the invalid mileage plus number, they said I had to speak with the computer.

United sent me a mileage plus number last year but that number is invalid so I can’t use it to check into flights or collect mileage. There is human to speak about the problem, only computers who keep asking me if I am using the correct email. It’s so frustrating and I cannot resolve it.

It was delayed instead of departing at 9:20pm, we departed at 11pm… putting us in Columbus after 2am! It was awful. Had I known about the delay, I could have spent some time in the United Lounge… I was starving because I started my journey in Budapest… so I was exhausted and hungry. Plus I had to make new arrangements to be picked up at the airport in Columbus, instead of midnight it was 2:30 am after getting luggage and out of airport. Not feasible. I would have just stayed in Chicago for the night and gotten a morning flight.

Not a great experience. We paid for the upgrade for premium economy seats and seated ourselves in very comfortable seats. Someone came along with the same seat on their boarding pass. The aircraft had been changed and as a result we were booted out and sent further back to small uncomfortable seats. After complaining we were moved to emergency row seats, which gave us more leg room but the seats don’t recline. For people in our 70’s we found having to sit upright from California to NJ very uncomfortable. Not sure why they chose to move senior citizens instead of the two people that were allowed to take the more comfortable seats. Not happy.

I liked the choice of lemon ginger tea. I think stewardesses can be more considerate of older people needs.

The food should improve! And The flight should leave on time and not make the traveler wait.

It was great, I’m very grateful for the pilots and crew flight attendants for everything.

Everything was great. Only thing that could’ve made it better was buy on board options for hot food, but the snacks were decent. The flight attendants were great. I had no complaints. I was able to make it to my destination safely

I had a good experience. I liked being informed about the status of my luggage

Very bad service the way back we was on the way for r two days very bad condition and waiting for luggage till now

I was forcefully re-routed to another destination and was delayed a total of 8hours. I have still not received my bags, no one is taking responsibility. The agents at the airport lied to me that I will get to my destination same time as my previous flight where I was forcefully re-routed from.

Flight was delayed by 1.5hrs. Once inside, people had their small handbags on the storage. The crew (male guy) was not helpful in making some space in the storage. Instead, he asked few bags to be checked-in and it was not a great experience. No attempt to help but just followed the things with a straight face. People had their literally small bags and he wouldnt not move from one storage to another even if there was space and would not let us do i as well. Once flight was on, they ran out of Orange juice, really running out of orange juice when the temp were 32.degrees outside. didnt made the sense. Onasking for a extra snack, he made a face as if he was giving me out of his pocket. if the flight was delayed, there could have an attempt to provide something extra incase people did asked.

Our flight was canceled at the last minute. Someone on the flight said the exact same thing happened to her the day before. I will say they helped us book a flight on another airline so that we could still make our vacation with little delay.

United had no (zero) record of our flight. It took over an hour of us standing in line with surly employee while others waited to get resolved. I have never experienced such poor service and poor empathy.

We had a very long delay. First the inbound flight took a while, then maintenance, they “fixed it” to then do boarding and leave the gate, and waste a lot of time to have to go back to the gate and eventually deplane. Had to wait for a new aircraft, wait for a gate, and do the whole thing again. Instead of leaving at 9:50am we left until past 1. I could’ve not woken up at 5am, or spend some more time with my family if they gave more grace period of time between flights to give some time in case of any issues. But they have to make all and every dollar possible

Aircraft had technical issues. After 3 hours of trying to resolve, flight was cancelled. Was booked on a flight leaving 12 hours after intended departure. Now on 4 flights instead of 2 and a day late to my destination.

Abandoned me in hallway in a wheelchair… which I asked for because I sprained my back. After waiting in the hallway, I decided to walk the rest of the way since someone respecting me up.. My experience with the united was totally the opposite. Wheelchair access, propped swift and save me a lot of grief. Air Canada totally disorganized.

I am very tall. All airline seats are a bit uncomfortable.

Overall good trip I find seats a bit hard. We were waiting on board for about an hour for 2 passengers with some document issue. This main our arrival late for our pickup person.

15kg allowance is outrageous. Change of time a few days before departure and more than 2 hours of delay in the end. The worse we’ve taken so far in Oceania.

They added the weight of my back to the carryon luggage and charged me NZ$75 for being over 7 kg.

stuck in the aircraft for over three hours due to engineering work, significantly delayed and made a lot of passengers missed the connecting transport, no mention any compensation

Very quiet plane!! One of the quietest planes we have been on.

Jetsatar refused to take my foldable stroller in the plane, despite following all the rules on dimensions and packaging. Similar thing happened on our previous fight. However, at that instance, they offered to check in the stroller. At this fight, the staff was rude, trying to rush us to board the flight. They made excuses that the stroller was not allowed and even offer to leave it behind and ship it back at our own cost. Fortunately, we had someone else attending. Since the flight was about to take off, they left it behind and send it back to us on the next available flight.

Overall, it was good. The only concern was that I couldn't charge my phone because the USB port didn't work after we took off. One of the crew members tried to restart it but never came back to me with an update.

Comfortable seats, boarding was easy and staff were very nice.

Flight was fine but a domestic flight was called by Jetstar international. This meant going through immigration and custom scanning twice. Long queues were experienced which were frustrating. We were using a wheelchair and exit at Perth needed a scissor lift as no air bridge provided. No fast lane at Perth for wheelchair. The staff were helpful but this system is poor.

The crew were great. The seat was older than an old Holden with a big metal bar sticking right into my back. The passenger next to me complained that hers was the same. The pre purchase system for food was disappointing as the pie/quiche took 20 mins to warm up, arrived too hot and with no utensils. It was one of the most uncomfortable flights I've ever been on.

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