Passengers
87,466
Brisbane to Port Moresby, 12 months to Jun 2026
Brisbane to Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea · 498 months of data from Jan 1985 · Port Moresby to Brisbane
Both directions
176,886
including Port Moresby to Brisbane
Flight time
3h 10m
scheduled, gate to gate
Load factor
64%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026
87,466 passengers flew Brisbane to Port Moresby in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 176,886 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 64% full, much the same in both directions. This route has been reported for 42 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
Jan 1985
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Peak complete year
2015
198,599 passengers
Latest complete year
2025
177,801 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Brisbane; the ring marks the distance to Port Moresby.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Brisbane to Port Moresby is 3h 10m gate to gate, over 2,080 km. The return leg is scheduled at much the same, 3h 10m.
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 Brisbane to Port Moresby. These are the numbers you book under.
Scheduled every day this week — 16 departures in all.
Air Niugini · 2 · Boeing 737-800, Boeing 767-300
PX4 · PX6
Qantas · 1 · Boeing 737-800, Boeing 737-800 (winglets)
QF57
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
To Jun 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.
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.
To Jun 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 21,208 · Jul 2015 |
| Data coverage | Jan 1985 – Jun 2026 (498 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Jun 2026 | 5,212 tonnes |
| Destination region | Papua New Guinea |
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.