Passengers
304,054
Dubai to Melbourne, 12 months to May 2026
Dubai to Melbourne
United Arab Emirates · 453 months of data from Jan 1985 · Melbourne to Dubai
Both directions
584,234
including Melbourne to Dubai
Flight time
13h 25m
35m shorter than the return
Load factor
77%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to May 2026
304,054 passengers flew Dubai to Melbourne in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 584,234 on the route in both directions. Traffic leans inbound: 304,054 arriving against 280,180 departing. Flights Dubai to Melbourne run 77% full, against 71% coming back. This route has been reported for 38 years.
The route
Distances are true from Melbourne; the ring marks the distance to Dubai.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Dubai to Melbourne is 13h 25m gate to gate, over 11,637 km. Coming back takes 14h — a difference of 35m, 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
2 flight numbers currently scheduled from Dubai to Melbourne. These are the numbers you book under.
Scheduled every day this week — 14 departures in all.
Emirates · 2 · Airbus A380, Airbus A380-800
EK406 · EK408
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, 1985 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 | 70,869 · Jul 2023 |
| Data coverage | Jan 1985 – May 2026 (453 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to May 2026 | 15,495 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.