Passengers
66,779
Brisbane to Shanghai, 12 months to Jun 2026
Brisbane to Shanghai
China · 163 months of data from Aug 1996 · Shanghai to Brisbane
Both directions
136,514
including Shanghai to Brisbane
Flight time
10h 25m
30m longer than the return
Load factor
82%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026
66,779 passengers flew Brisbane to Shanghai in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 136,514 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 82% full, much the same in both directions.
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
Aug 1996
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Latest complete year · also peak
2025
102,369 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Brisbane; the ring marks the distance to Shanghai.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Brisbane to Shanghai is 10h 25m gate to gate, over 7,281 km. Coming back takes 9h 55m — 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 Shanghai. These are the numbers you book under.
Scheduled every day this week — 7 departures in all.
China Eastern · 1 · Airbus A330-200
MU716
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, 1996 to 2026
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
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.
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.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
To Jun 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 17,489 · Feb 2026 |
| Data coverage | Aug 1996 – Jun 2026 (163 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Jun 2026 | 4,442 tonnes |
| Destination region | China |
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.