Passengers
61,567
Dubai to Adelaide, 12 months to May 2026
Dubai to Adelaide
United Arab Emirates · 116 months of data from Dec 1987 · Adelaide to Dubai
Both directions
115,911
including Adelaide to Dubai
Flight time
12h 30m
40m shorter than the return
Load factor
73%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to May 2026
61,567 passengers flew Dubai to Adelaide in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 115,911 on the route in both directions. Traffic leans inbound: 61,567 arriving against 54,344 departing. Flights Dubai to Adelaide run 73% full, against 65% coming back.
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
To May 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 May 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 20,703 · Jul 2015 |
| Data coverage | Dec 1987 – May 2026 (116 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to May 2026 | 2,776 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.