Passengers
59,224
Dubai to Adelaide, 12 months to Jun 2026
Dubai to Adelaide
United Arab Emirates · 117 months of data from Dec 1987 · Adelaide to Dubai
Both directions
111,398
including Adelaide to Dubai
Flight time
12h 30m
40m shorter than the return
Load factor
72%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026
59,224 passengers flew Dubai to Adelaide in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 111,398 on the route in both directions. Traffic leans inbound: 59,224 arriving against 52,174 departing. Flights Dubai to Adelaide run 72% full, against 64% 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
Dec 1987
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Peak complete year
2015
213,842 passengers
Latest complete year
2025
141,570 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Adelaide; the ring marks the distance to Dubai.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Dubai to Adelaide is 12h 30m gate to gate, over 10,997 km. Coming back takes 13h 10m — a difference of 40m, 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
1 flight number currently scheduled from Dubai to Adelaide. These are the numbers you book under.
Scheduled every day this week — 8 departures in all.
Emirates · 1 · Airbus A350-900
EK440
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, 1987 to 2026
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
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.
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.
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 | 20,703 · Jul 2015 |
| Data coverage | Dec 1987 – Jun 2026 (117 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Jun 2026 | 2,508 tonnes |
| Destination region | United Arab Emirates |
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.