Passengers
82,453
Adelaide to Kuala Lumpur, 12 months to Jun 2026
Adelaide to Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia · 440 months of data from Dec 1988 · Kuala Lumpur to Adelaide
Both directions
164,572
including Kuala Lumpur to Adelaide
Flight time
7h 45m
40m longer than the return
Load factor
92%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026
82,453 passengers flew Adelaide to Kuala Lumpur in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 164,572 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 92% full, much the same in both directions. This route has been reported for 37 years.
Passenger history milestones
Recorded milestones use this city-pair passenger series, with both directions combined. A first positive record is not a service-launch date; complete calendar years require all twelve observed, non-null months.
First positive passenger record
Dec 1988
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Peak complete year
2014
244,961 passengers
Latest complete year
2025
137,088 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Adelaide; the ring marks the distance to Kuala Lumpur.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Adelaide to Kuala Lumpur is 7h 45m gate to gate, over 5,672 km. Coming back takes 7h 5m — a difference of 40m, so this direction is the slower 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 Adelaide to Kuala Lumpur. These are the numbers you book under.
Scheduled every day this week — 7 departures in all.
Malaysia · 1 · Airbus A330, Airbus A330-900, Airbus A330-900 NEO
MH138
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, 1988 to 2026
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
To Jun 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.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
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.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
To Jun 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 27,473 · Jan 2014 |
| Data coverage | Dec 1988 – Jun 2026 (440 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Jun 2026 | 3,274 tonnes |
| Destination region | Malaysia |
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.