Passengers
42,030
Bandar Seri Begawan to Melbourne, 12 months to Jun 2026
Bandar Seri Begawan to Melbourne
Brunei · 188 months of data from Jan 1985 · Melbourne to Bandar Seri Begawan
Both directions
82,281
including Melbourne to Bandar Seri Begawan
Flight time
6h 55m
15m shorter than the return
Load factor
65%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026
42,030 passengers flew Bandar Seri Begawan to Melbourne in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 82,281 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 65% full, much the same in both directions.
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
Jan 1985
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Peak complete year
2015
135,630 passengers
Latest complete year
2025
80,109 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Melbourne; the ring marks the distance to Bandar Seri Begawan.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Bandar Seri Begawan to Melbourne is 6h 55m gate to gate, over 5,644 km. Coming back takes 7h 10m — a difference of 15m, 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 Bandar Seri Begawan to Melbourne. These are the numbers you book under.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Tue, Thu, Fri, Sat and Sun (5 departures).
Royal Brunei · 1 · Boeing 787-8
BI5
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
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.
To Jun 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 15,077 · Jan 2014 |
| Data coverage | Jan 1985 – Jun 2026 (188 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Jun 2026 | 3,380 tonnes |
| Destination region | Brunei |
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.