Passengers
84,417
Abu Dhabi to Melbourne, 12 months to May 2026
Abu Dhabi to Melbourne
United Arab Emirates · 279 months of data from Jan 1985 · Melbourne to Abu Dhabi
Both directions
172,430
including Melbourne to Abu Dhabi
Flight time
13h 10m
40m shorter than the return
Load factor
86%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to May 2026
84,417 passengers flew Abu Dhabi to Melbourne in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 172,430 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 86% full, much the same in both directions. This route has been reported for 23 years.
The route
Distances are true from Melbourne; the ring marks the distance to Abu Dhabi.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Abu Dhabi to Melbourne is 13h 10m gate to gate, over 11,644 km. Coming back takes 13h 50m — a difference of 40m, so this direction is the quicker one.
Scheduled block time — gate to gate, not time in the air — taken from the current timetable for this leg. Long-haul flights are often timetabled differently in each direction because of winds aloft, so the return is not always the same length. Check your own booking for the flight you are taking.
Flight numbers on this route
1 flight number currently scheduled from Abu Dhabi to Melbourne. These are the numbers you book under.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Mon, Tue, Wed, Fri and Sat (5 departures).
Etihad · 1 · Boeing 787-9
EY460
Current timetable as at 2026-09-06
Timetables change, and these carry no punctuality figures of their own — no on-time data is published for international flights at all. The passenger and load factor figures above cover the route, not any single flight number.
Passengers, 1985 to 2026
To May 2026 · Marks show industry events
How full were the flights?
Inbound load factor, read as a floor rather than an exact figure. Some flights on this pair also carried passengers to and from other cities, and their seats cannot be split between those journeys. Dividing by every seat on every aircraft that touched the route gives the lowest the true figure can be, so actual occupancy is at or above the line. Seat data begins in 2009, so this series is shorter than the passenger chart above.
Load factor: seats data from 2009
When is this route busiest?
Average passengers by calendar month over the last ten years, relative to the annual average.
Freight
Tonnes of air freight carried on this route — a dimension the domestic data does not have at all.
To May 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 45,961 · Jul 2016 |
| Data coverage | Jan 1985 – May 2026 (279 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to May 2026 | 4,690 tonnes |
| Destination region | United Arab Emirates |
No punctuality data is published for international services, so there are no cancellation or on-time figures on this page. That series covers domestic routes only.