Passenger traffic last recorded
Dec 2017
no passengers recorded in later published months
Cairns to Manila
Philippines · 137 months of data from Dec 1986
Flights on this pair are non-stop, but the aircraft usually continues beyond Manila rather than terminating there. That is why the seat figures below cover more than this one pair, and why the load factor is given as a floor rather than an exact number.
Years of data
11
Dec 1986 – Dec 2017
Busiest month
1,968
Aug 2017
Traffic: to Jun 2026
Passenger traffic between Cairns and Manila was last recorded in Dec 2017, after 31,607 passengers had been recorded since 2003. At its busiest the route carried 1,968 passengers in a single month, in Aug 2017.
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
Dec 1986
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Latest complete year · also peak
2017
16,663 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Cairns; the ring marks the distance to Manila.
Passengers, 1986 to 2017
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
To Dec 2017 · 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.
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 Dec 2017
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 1,968 · Aug 2017 |
| Data coverage | Dec 1986 – Dec 2017 (137 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Dec 2017 | 27 tonnes |
| Destination region | Philippines |
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.