Passengers
8,856
Cairns to Hong Kong, 12 months to Feb 2026
Cairns to Hong Kong
Hong Kong (SAR) · 420 months of data from Jan 1986 · Hong Kong to Cairns
Both directions
17,635
including Hong Kong to Cairns
Load factor
62%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to Feb 2026
8,856 passengers flew Cairns to Hong Kong in the 12 months to Feb 2026, out of 17,635 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 62% full, much the same in both directions. This route has been reported for 35 years.
The route
Distances are true from Cairns; the ring marks the distance to Hong Kong.
Passengers, 1986 to 2026
To Feb 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 Feb 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 10,993 · Aug 2005 |
| Data coverage | Jan 1986 – Feb 2026 (420 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Feb 2026 | 391 tonnes |
| Destination region | Hong Kong (SAR) |
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.