Jetstar NZ Weekend Frenzy: Domestic from $59, Gold Coast $179, Rarotonga $199 and more @ BTF

Jetstar has put up a Weekend Frenzy across its New Zealand network, and the sale ends Monday 31 August 2026. There are 45 fare windows spread over 19 routes - fourteen domestic and five to Australia and the Pacific - with the cheapest starting at $59 one-way. All prices are NZD and all are one-way.

Connection Information

Every fare in this sale is on a route Jetstar operates in its own right rather than a fare stitched together from two carriers, and the domestic city pairs below are all part of its own New Zealand jet network.

If the booking page does show you a connecting itinerary - most likely on the longer Trans-Tasman fares - it will route you through one of the hubs in this sale, usually Auckland (AKL) or Christchurch (CHC). Check the published minimum connection time for whichever airport you transit against the layover you're actually given before you pay, and be extra careful if the two legs end up on separate tickets, because a missed onward flight is then your problem rather than the airline's.

The cheapest fare in the sale is $59 one-way between Auckland and Christchurch, and it's available in three separate travel windows in each direction - Auckland to Christchurch from 28 October 2026 and Christchurch to Auckland from 27 October 2026 are the first two windows to open.

Every one of the seven domestic city pairs prices identically in both directions, which makes return trips easy to build: $59 Auckland-Christchurch, $64 Christchurch-Hamilton and Wellington-Queenstown, $69 Auckland-Wellington and Christchurch-Wellington, and $79 Auckland-Dunedin and Auckland-Queenstown.

The value pick is Wellington to Queenstown at $64, which is $5 cheaper than the much shorter Auckland-Wellington hop and one of the more scenic approaches in the country. Christchurch to Hamilton at $64 is the other standout, undercutting the trunk routes on a considerably longer flight.

Across the Tasman and the Pacific, Dunedin to the Gold Coast at $179 is the cheapest international fare, followed by Auckland to Rarotonga at $199, Christchurch to Sydney at $199, Auckland to Brisbane at $209 and Christchurch to Perth at $294. These five are one-directional in the sale - no discounted fare back was listed, so price the return leg separately.

The travel windows fall into three clear blocks: late October through to mid-December 2026, the first three weeks of March 2027, and late April through June 2027, with one Wellington-Christchurch window stretching all the way to 22 July 2027. Christmas, January and the school holidays are excluded, as they almost always are in a Frenzy. The single exception is Dunedin to the Gold Coast, the only fare in the sale that covers February 2027.

Window lengths vary a lot, so check yours before you plan around it. Wellington to Christchurch runs 02 May to 22 July 2027 - nearly three months - while both directions of Christchurch-Wellington in March give you just ten days, 08 to 18 March 2027.

From Auckland

From Christchurch

From Wellington

From Queenstown

From Hamilton

From Dunedin

The pick of the sale is Auckland to Christchurch from $59 one-way, matched at $59 in the other direction across three travel windows each, so a return trip on the main trunk comes to $118 before bags. Wellington to Queenstown at $64 and Christchurch to Hamilton at $64 are the best value for distance flown, and Dunedin to the Gold Coast at $179 is the cheapest way out of the country. Book by Monday 31 August 2026.

Fares were available at the time of posting and can change or sell out without notice.

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