Passengers
162,670
Brisbane to Dubai, 12 months to Jun 2026
Brisbane to Dubai
United Arab Emirates · 272 months of data from Oct 2003 · Dubai to Brisbane
Both directions
343,072
including Dubai to Brisbane
Flight time
14h 10m
20m longer than the return
Load factor
67%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026
162,670 passengers flew Brisbane to Dubai in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 343,072 on the route in both directions. Traffic leans inbound: 180,402 arriving against 162,670 departing. Flights Brisbane to Dubai run 67% full, against 75% coming back. This route has been reported for 23 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
Oct 2003
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Peak complete year
2018
502,104 passengers
Latest complete year
2025
477,955 passengers
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
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
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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.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
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.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
To Jun 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 51,620 · Jul 2019 |
| Data coverage | Oct 2003 – Jun 2026 (272 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Jun 2026 | 7,310 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.