Brisbane (BNE) to New York (NYC): 9,636 miles (15,508 km) great-circle, about 19h 45m nonstop by our estimate. Cheapest fare observed: $1195 round-trip on Jetstar, with 3 stops, departing May 8, 2026.
$1195 round-trip, Jetstar JQ936, departing 2026-05-08 at 14:50, returning 2026-05-28. The recorded itinerary left on a Friday, returning on a Thursday 20 nights later; the fare was observed 13 days before departure. "Book this flight" opens Kiwi.com with the same airline and dates.
At $1195, it ranked 17th of the 30 round-trip fares we recorded from BNE (median $1,038). That is 12.4 cents per great-circle mile (round-trip price over one-way distance), below the BNE median of 18.6 cents across 30 round-trip routes.
Routes from BNE of similar length: Warsaw (9,451 mi) at $1767 and Bucaramanga (9,103 mi) at $2470.
Jetstar had the cheapest fare on 14 of 30 BNE routes. It is the 3rd longest of the 30 routes we track from BNE.
Of 50 departure airports with a fare to New York, Brisbane (BNE) ranked 44th at $1195. Lowest: $95 from Miami (MIA); highest: $1609 from Auckland (AKL); 18 nonstop. Cheapest-fare airlines (routes): Spirit (8), Frontier (7), Alaska Airlines (3), JetBlue (3), Southwest (3) and Air Canada (2), plus 20 more.
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Travelpayouts fares (cheapest per route, observed April 25, 2026); OurAirports coordinates and elevations; IANA zones Australia/Brisbane, America/New_York; flight time is our estimate.