Australian Flight Data

Bangkok to Sydney

Thailand · 497 months of data from Jan 1985 · Sydney to Bangkok

Passengers
270,382
Bangkok to Sydney, 12 months to May 2026
Both directions
523,001
including Sydney to Bangkok
Flight time
9h 15m
35m shorter than the return
Load factor
79%
seats filled on this leg

Traffic: 12 months to May 2026

270,382 passengers flew Bangkok to Sydney in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 523,001 on the route in both directions. Flights Bangkok to Sydney run 79% full, against 73% coming back. This route has been reported for 41 years.

The route

Sydney Bangkok

Distances are true from Sydney; the ring marks the distance to Bangkok.

How long is the flight?

Scheduled flight time from Bangkok to Sydney is 9h 15m gate to gate, over 7,502 km. Coming back takes 9h 50m — a difference of 35m, 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

3 flight numbers currently scheduled from Bangkok to Sydney. These are the numbers you book under.

Scheduled every day this week — 21 departures in all.

Thai International · 2 · Airbus A350-900, Airbus A350

TG471 · TG475

Qantas · 1 · Airbus A330-200, Airbus A330-300

QF24

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

024,15448,307 May 2025Nov 2025May 2026
031,72063,440Delta lockdowns close the eastern states — Jul 2021 Omicron wave hits crew availability — Jan 2022 Bonza launches on leisure routes — Nov 2023 Bonza collapses after 15 months — Mar 2024 Rex enters administration and exits the trunk routes — Aug 2024 Cyclone Alfred closes south-east Queensland airports — Mar 2025 May 2021Nov 2023May 2026
031,72063,440Tigerair Australia stops flying — Feb 2020 COVID-19 border closures begin — Mar 2020 The deepest month: domestic traffic falls 96% — Apr 2020 Rex enters the trunk routes with jets — Mar 2021 Delta lockdowns close the eastern states — Jul 2021 Omicron wave hits crew availability — Jan 2022 Bonza launches on leisure routes — Nov 2023 Bonza collapses after 15 months — Mar 2024 Rex enters administration and exits the trunk routes — Aug 2024 Cyclone Alfred closes south-east Queensland airports — Mar 2025 May 2016May 2021May 2026
031,72063,440The pilots' dispute grounds domestic aviation — Aug 1989 Domestic deregulation ends the Two Airline Policy — Oct 1990 Virgin Blue launches — Aug 2000 Ansett Australia collapses — Sep 2001 Jetstar launches — May 2004 OzJet's all-business experiment ends within months — Jan 2006 Tiger Airways Australia enters the market — Apr 2008 Volcanic ash cloud disrupts southern Australia — Jun 2011 Qantas grounds its entire fleet — Oct 2011 Skywest becomes Virgin Australia Regional Airlines — May 2013 Tigerair Australia stops flying — Feb 2020 COVID-19 border closures begin — Mar 2020 The deepest month: domestic traffic falls 96% — Apr 2020 Rex enters the trunk routes with jets — Mar 2021 Delta lockdowns close the eastern states — Jul 2021 Omicron wave hits crew availability — Jan 2022 Bonza launches on leisure routes — Nov 2023 Bonza collapses after 15 months — Mar 2024 Rex enters administration and exits the trunk routes — Aug 2024 Cyclone Alfred closes south-east Queensland airports — Mar 2025 Jan 1985Sep 2005May 2026

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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.

59%76%92% May 2025Nov 2025May 2026
3%48%92% May 2021Dec 2023May 2026
3%48%93% May 2016Apr 2021May 2026
3%48%93% Sep 2003Sep 2015May 2026

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.

J: 1.08× the annual average J F: 0.90× the annual average F M: 0.91× the annual average M A: 1.02× the annual average A M: 0.92× the annual average M J: 0.97× the annual average J J: 1.04× the annual average J A: 0.96× the annual average A S: 1.03× the annual average S O: 1.03× the annual average O N: 0.99× the annual average N D: 1.16× the annual average D

Freight

Tonnes of air freight carried on this route — a dimension the domestic data does not have at all.

07111,422 May 2025Nov 2025May 2026
08391,678 May 2021Nov 2023May 2026
08391,678 May 2016May 2021May 2026
01,0792,158 Jan 1985Sep 2005May 2026

To May 2026

The route in numbers

Busiest month on record63,440 · Jan 2025
Data coverageJan 1985 – May 2026 (497 months)
Freight, 12 months to May 202614,178 tonnes
Destination regionThailand

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.

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