Passengers
11,480
Darwin to Kuala Lumpur, 12 months to Apr 2026
Darwin to Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia · 195 months of data from Mar 1989 · Kuala Lumpur to Darwin
Both directions
25,927
including Kuala Lumpur to Darwin
Load factor
40%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to Apr 2026
11,480 passengers flew Darwin to Kuala Lumpur in the 12 months to Apr 2026, out of 25,927 on the route in both directions. Traffic leans inbound: 14,447 arriving against 11,480 departing. Flights Darwin to Kuala Lumpur run 40% full, against 50% coming back.
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
Mar 1989
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Peak complete year
2015
29,428 passengers
Latest complete year
2016
24,124 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Darwin; the ring marks the distance to Kuala Lumpur.
Passengers, 1989 to 2026
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
To Apr 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 Apr 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 3,862 · Jan 2026 |
| Data coverage | Mar 1989 – Apr 2026 (195 months) |
| Destination region | Malaysia |
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.