Passengers
4,917
Brisbane to Palau, 12 months to May 2026
Brisbane to Palau
26 months of data from Feb 2023 · Palau to Brisbane
Flights on this pair are non-stop, but the aircraft usually continues beyond Palau rather than terminating there. That is why the seat figures below cover more than this one pair, and why the load factor is given as a floor rather than an exact number.
Both directions
9,794
including Palau to Brisbane
Flight time
6h 10m
30m longer than the return
Traffic: 12 months to May 2026
4,917 passengers flew Brisbane to Palau in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 9,794 on the route in both directions.
The route
Distances are true from Brisbane; the ring marks the distance to Palau.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Brisbane to Palau is 6h 10m gate to gate, over 4,335 km. Coming back takes 5h 40m — a difference of 30m, 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 Palau. These are the numbers you book under.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Sat (1 departure).
Qantas · 1 · Boeing 737-800
QF165
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, 2023 to 2026
To May 2026 · Marks show industry events
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 | 1,061 · May 2026 |
| Data coverage | Feb 2023 – May 2026 (26 months) |
| Destination region | Palau |
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.