Jetstar Sale 2026: $34 Flights, Best Deals, Routes & Travel Dates
- The Get Onboard Sale runs to 11.59pm AEST on Monday 24 August 2026, or until fares sell out — Jetstar’s wording is ‘unless sold out prior’, so the deadline is not a guarantee the fares last that long.
- The $34 fare is one specific route: Sydney (Kingsford Smith) to Ballina Byron. Of the 15 routes Jetstar named, only two are under $40 and the most expensive is Melbourne to Colombo at $319.
- Travel dates run from September 2026 to June 2027 on selected days. That matters more than usual this year, because Jetstar’s carry-on allowance changes partway through it.
- Book travel before 2 February 2027 and the fare includes a 7kg carry-on bag. Book on or after that date and it includes one underseat bag only, with Priority Carry-on sold separately. The split is almost exactly half the window each way.
- Two of the domestic deals fly from Western Sydney Airport rather than Kingsford Smith — Gold Coast from $50 and Brisbane from $64.
Jetstar has put 225,000 fares on sale across its entire network, starting at $34, and the sale closes at 11.59pm AEST on Monday 24 August 2026.
Below is every route the airline actually named with its price, the travel dates, and the one condition that has gone almost entirely unreported — a change to carry-on baggage that falls in the middle of the travel window.
What is the Jetstar sale and when does it end?
It is called the Get Onboard Sale, it launched on Wednesday 19 August 2026, and it covers every route on Jetstar’s domestic and international network.
| Fares on sale | 225,000 |
| Lowest fare | $34 one way |
| Closes | 11.59pm AEST, Monday 24 August 2026 |
| Travel dates | Selected dates, September 2026 – June 2027 |
| Early access | Club Jetstar members had 12 hours from midday AEST on 19 August |
The closing time carries a condition worth reading properly. Jetstar’s wording is that the sale ends at 11.59pm on 24 August “unless sold out prior”. On a sale with a fixed number of seats, the cheapest fares on popular routes routinely go first, so the deadline is the outside limit rather than a promise.
Which route is the $34 flight?
Sydney (Kingsford Smith) to Ballina Byron. That is the only $34 fare in the list Jetstar published, and it is one way.
The next cheapest is Adelaide to Melbourne (Avalon) at $39. After that the prices climb quickly — only two of the fifteen named routes start under $40.
What are all the Jetstar sale routes and prices?
Fifteen routes, from $34 to $319 — seven domestic and eight international. Jetstar says the sale covers its whole network, so this is the list it chose to advertise rather than every discounted route.
| Route | Fare | |
|---|---|---|
| Sydney (Kingsford Smith) → Ballina Byron | $34 | Domestic |
| Adelaide → Melbourne (Avalon) | $39 | Domestic |
| Sydney (Western Sydney) → Gold Coast | $50 | Domestic |
| Hobart → Newcastle | $58 | Domestic |
| Brisbane → Sydney (Western Sydney) | $64 | Domestic |
| Melbourne (Tullamarine) → Hervey Bay | $90 | Domestic |
| Sydney (Kingsford Smith) → Cairns | $95 | Domestic |
| Perth → Bali (Denpasar) | $144 | International |
| Sydney (Kingsford Smith) → Hamilton | $169 | International |
| Gold Coast → Wellington | $197 | International |
| Perth → Phuket | $199 | International |
| Gold Coast → Christchurch | $209 | International |
| Brisbane → Rarotonga | $245 | International |
| Cairns → Osaka (Kansai) | $287 | International |
| Melbourne (Tullamarine) → Colombo | $319 | International |
Two of them fly from Western Sydney Airport rather than Kingsford Smith, which is worth checking before you book if you are travelling from the east of the city — it is a very different drive.
Jetstar says the sale covers the whole network, so these fifteen are the ones it chose to advertise rather than the complete list of discounted routes.
When can you travel on these fares?
Selected dates between September 2026 and June 2027. Jetstar has not published the excluded dates route by route, and school holidays and the Christmas period are the usual gaps in a sale like this.
That ten-month window is longer than most airline sales, and this year it creates a problem the fare price does not show you.
What is the catch with the $34 fares?
The one nobody is writing about is baggage, and it depends entirely on which month you fly.
Jetstar’s own wording: “For travel before 2 February, fares include 7kg carry-on bags. For travel on or after 2 February, fares include one underseat carry-on bag and Priority Carry-on can be purchased (subject to availability).”
The sale’s travel window runs to June 2027. The change lands on 2 February 2027, almost exactly halfway through it — 154 days of the window fall before the change and 149 days after it. Two people can buy the same $34 fare in the same week and get different hand-luggage allowances, entirely depending on the month they chose.
If you are booking for the second half of the window and you normally travel with a cabin bag, the advertised fare is not the fare you will pay.
The other conditions are the usual ones for a sale like this, and Jetstar attaches a footnote to every price:
- Fares are one way, so a return trip is two of them.
- Checked baggage is not included in the lead-in fare.
- Seat selection, changes and cancellations cost extra on the cheapest fare type.
- “From” means from. The advertised price exists on some dates, not all of them.
Do you need Club Jetstar to get these fares?
No. Club Jetstar members got a 12-hour head start from midday AEST on 19 August, but the sale opened to everyone at midnight AEST that night and the same fares are public now.
Membership costs $65, which only makes sense as a maths problem rather than a sale tactic: it pays for itself if the member-only fares and baggage discounts you will actually use over a year come to more than that. For a single $34 flight, they do not.
What this article cannot tell you
Whether a specific fare is still there. Sale seats are limited, and Jetstar’s own condition is “unless sold out prior”. The cheapest date on any route can be gone hours after publication.
What you will actually pay. No booking was made here. The figures are Jetstar’s advertised lead-in fares, before bags, seats and card fees.
Which dates are excluded. Jetstar says “selected travel dates” and does not publish the exclusions in the release. The booking calendar is the only place that answers it.
Sources
| Source | Used for |
|---|---|
| Jetstar newsroom — Get Onboard Sale, 19 August 2026 | The 225,000 figure, all fifteen routes and fares, the closing time and the “unless sold out prior” condition, the September 2026 to June 2027 travel window, and the Club Jetstar early access |
| Jetstar — deals page | The carry-on baggage change from 2 February 2027, quoted in full, and the $65 Club Jetstar membership price |
How we verified this
Every fare and date here comes from Jetstar’s own newsroom release of 19 August 2026, not from coverage of it. The 15 routes, the 225,000 figure, the travel window, the Club Jetstar early-access arrangement and the closing time are quoted from that release. The route list is committed to this repository as a snapshot so the charts remain reproducible after the sale ends and the page changes.
⚠️ jetstar.com blocked this session until the browser User-Agent was removed. Requests carrying a normal Chrome User-Agent string returned no response at all — a connection-level failure, not a 404 — while the same requests with no User-Agent header returned the page. That is the reverse of the usual advice, and it is recorded here because the alternative was to conclude the site was unreachable and fall back on secondary reporting. The site passed a control test once reachable: the real newsroom path returns HTTP 200 and an invented one returns 404.
🔴 The carry-on change is quoted from Jetstar and was not mentioned in any coverage of this sale that we found. Jetstar’s deals page reads: “For travel before 2 February, fares include 7kg carry-on bags. For travel on or after 2 February, fares include one underseat carry-on bag and Priority Carry-on can be purchased (subject to availability).” Pairing that against the sale’s own September 2026 to June 2027 travel window is this article’s own arithmetic, and the chart says so.
⚠️ The $ symbols on the route chart had to be escaped. Matplotlib reads text between two dollar signs as a mathematical expression, so a title containing both “$34” and “$319” silently rendered as italic gibberish. It was caught by looking at the finished image, not by any automated check.
Every price is a lead-in fare and none of them were tested at checkout. Jetstar attaches a conditions footnote to each figure, the fares are one way, availability is limited and dates are selected. No booking was made and no total including bags, seat selection or card fees was verified. Treat the numbers as the lowest advertised starting point on each route, which is what they are.
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