Passengers
174,718
Brisbane to Dubai, 12 months to May 2026
Brisbane to Dubai
United Arab Emirates · 271 months of data from Oct 2003 · Dubai to Brisbane
Both directions
367,983
including Dubai to Brisbane
Flight time
14h 10m
20m longer than the return
Load factor
68%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to May 2026
174,718 passengers flew Brisbane to Dubai in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 367,983 on the route in both directions. Traffic leans inbound: 193,265 arriving against 174,718 departing. Flights Brisbane to Dubai run 68% full, against 75% coming back. This route has been reported for 23 years.
The route
Distances are true from Brisbane; the ring marks the distance to Dubai.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Brisbane to Dubai is 14h 10m gate to gate, over 11,977 km. Coming back takes 13h 50m — a difference of 20m, 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
2 flight numbers currently scheduled from Brisbane to Dubai. These are the numbers you book under.
Scheduled every day this week — 14 departures in all.
Emirates · 2 · Boeing 777, Boeing 777-300ER, Airbus A380-800
EK431 · EK435
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, 2003 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 | 51,620 · Jul 2019 |
| Data coverage | Oct 2003 – May 2026 (271 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to May 2026 | 7,477 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.