Passengers
219,709
Doha to Sydney, 12 months to May 2026
Doha to Sydney
Qatar · 127 months of data from Jan 2007 · Sydney to Doha
Both directions
430,028
including Sydney to Doha
Flight time
14h 5m
45m shorter than the return
Load factor
88%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to May 2026
219,709 passengers flew Doha to Sydney in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 430,028 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 88% full, much the same in both directions.
The route
Distances are true from Sydney; the ring marks the distance to Doha.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Doha to Sydney is 14h 5m gate to gate, over 12,371 km. Coming back takes 14h 50m — a difference of 45m, so this direction is the quicker 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
3 flight numbers currently scheduled from Doha to Sydney. These are the numbers you book under.
Scheduled every day this week — 16 departures in all.
Qatar · 2 · Boeing 777-300ER
QR908 · QR8401
Virgin Australia · 1 · Boeing 777-300ER
VA2
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, 2007 to 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.
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 May 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 50,647 · Aug 2025 |
| Data coverage | Jan 2007 – May 2026 (127 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to May 2026 | 7,128 tonnes |
| Destination region | Qatar |
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.