Passengers
58,877
Brisbane to San Francisco, 12 months to May 2026
Brisbane to San Francisco
USA · 165 months of data from Jan 1985 · San Francisco to Brisbane
Both directions
117,338
including San Francisco to Brisbane
Flight time
12h 55m
1h 10m shorter than the return
Load factor
77%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to May 2026
58,877 passengers flew Brisbane to San Francisco in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 117,338 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 77% full, much the same in both directions.
The route
Distances are true from Brisbane; the ring marks the distance to San Francisco.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Brisbane to San Francisco is 12h 55m gate to gate, over 11,367 km. Coming back takes 14h 5m — a difference of 1h 10m, so this direction is the quicker 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 San Francisco. These are the numbers you book under.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Tue, Wed, Fri and Sun (4 departures).
United · 1 · Boeing 777, Boeing 777-200
UA97
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 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 | 17,283 · Jan 2025 |
| Data coverage | Jan 1985 – May 2026 (165 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to May 2026 | 2,243 tonnes |
| Destination region | USA |
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.