Australian Flight Data

Brisbane to Seoul

Korea · 373 months of data from Jan 1992 · Seoul to Brisbane

Passengers
93,339
Brisbane to Seoul, 12 months to May 2026
Both directions
187,791
including Seoul to Brisbane
Flight time
9h 50m
20m longer than the return
Load factor
87%
seats filled on this leg

Traffic: 12 months to May 2026

93,339 passengers flew Brisbane to Seoul in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 187,791 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 87% full, much the same in both directions. This route has been reported for 31 years.

The route

Brisbane Seoul

Distances are true from Brisbane; the ring marks the distance to Seoul.

How long is the flight?

Scheduled flight time from Brisbane to Seoul is 9h 50m gate to gate, over 7,701 km. Coming back takes 9h 30m — 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 Seoul. These are the numbers you book under.

Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Tue, Thu, Sat and Sun (7 departures).

Jetstar · 1 · Boeing 787-8

JQ53

Korean Air · 1 · Boeing 787-9

KE408

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

08,19416,387 May 2025Nov 2025May 2026
010,60421,208Bonza launches on leisure routes — Nov 2023 Bonza collapses after 15 months — Mar 2024 Rex enters administration and exits the trunk routes — Aug 2024 Cyclone Alfred closes south-east Queensland airports — Mar 2025 Jan 2023Oct 2024May 2026
010,60421,208Tigerair Australia stops flying — Feb 2020 COVID-19 border closures begin — Mar 2020 Bonza launches on leisure routes — Nov 2023 Bonza collapses after 15 months — Mar 2024 Rex enters administration and exits the trunk routes — Aug 2024 Cyclone Alfred closes south-east Queensland airports — Mar 2025 May 2016Dec 2019May 2026
010,60421,208Virgin Blue launches — Aug 2000 Ansett Australia collapses — Sep 2001 Jetstar launches — May 2004 OzJet's all-business experiment ends within months — Jan 2006 Tiger Airways Australia enters the market — Apr 2008 Volcanic ash cloud disrupts southern Australia — Jun 2011 Qantas grounds its entire fleet — Oct 2011 Skywest becomes Virgin Australia Regional Airlines — May 2013 Tigerair Australia stops flying — Feb 2020 COVID-19 border closures begin — Mar 2020 Bonza launches on leisure routes — Nov 2023 Bonza collapses after 15 months — Mar 2024 Rex enters administration and exits the trunk routes — Aug 2024 Cyclone Alfred closes south-east Queensland airports — Mar 2025 Jan 1992Jan 2008May 2026

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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.

80%88%97% May 2025Nov 2025May 2026
54%77%99% Jan 2023Oct 2024May 2026
38%70%101% May 2016Dec 2019May 2026
38%70%101% Sep 2003May 2014May 2026

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.

J: 1.21× the annual average J F: 1.17× the annual average F M: 1.08× the annual average M A: 0.90× the annual average A M: 0.89× the annual average M J: 0.87× the annual average J J: 0.89× the annual average J A: 0.91× the annual average A S: 0.88× the annual average S O: 0.95× the annual average O N: 0.98× the annual average N D: 1.26× the annual average D

Freight

Tonnes of air freight carried on this route — a dimension the domestic data does not have at all.

0179358 May 2025Nov 2025May 2026
0192385 Jan 2023Oct 2024May 2026
0200399 May 2016Dec 2019May 2026
0309618 Jan 1992Jan 2008May 2026

To May 2026

The route in numbers

Busiest month on record21,208 · Feb 2024
Data coverageJan 1992 – May 2026 (373 months)
Freight, 12 months to May 20263,597 tonnes
Destination regionKorea

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.

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