Passengers
63,911
Brisbane to Osaka, 12 months to May 2026
Brisbane to Osaka
Japan · 234 months of data from Mar 1992 · Osaka to Brisbane
Both directions
127,810
including Osaka to Brisbane
Flight time
9h 5m
20m longer than the return
Load factor
91%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to May 2026
63,911 passengers flew Brisbane to Osaka in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 127,810 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 91% full, much the same in both directions.
The route
Distances are true from Brisbane; the ring marks the distance to Osaka.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Brisbane to Osaka is 9h 5m gate to gate, over 7,096 km. Coming back takes 8h 45m — 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
1 flight number currently scheduled from Brisbane to Osaka. These are the numbers you book under.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Mon, Wed, Fri and Sun (4 departures).
Jetstar · 1 · Boeing 787-8
JQ23
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, 1992 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 | 20,605 · Aug 1999 |
| Data coverage | Mar 1992 – May 2026 (234 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to May 2026 | 1,897 tonnes |
| Destination region | Japan |
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.