Passengers
33,981
Haikou to Melbourne, 12 months to Jun 2026
Haikou to Melbourne
China · 51 months of data from Dec 2018 · Melbourne to Haikou
Both directions
71,652
including Melbourne to Haikou
Flight time
9h 30m
30m shorter than the return
Load factor
76%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026
33,981 passengers flew Haikou to Melbourne in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 71,652 on the route in both directions. Traffic leans outbound: 37,671 departing against 33,981 arriving. Flights Haikou to Melbourne run 76% full, against 85% 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 2018
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Latest complete year · also peak
2025
76,198 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Melbourne; the ring marks the distance to Haikou.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Haikou to Melbourne is 9h 30m gate to gate, over 7,323 km. Coming back takes 10h — a difference of 30m, 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 Haikou to Melbourne. These are the numbers you book under.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Tue, Fri and Sun (3 departures).
Hainan · 1 · Airbus A330-300
HU483
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, 2018 to 2026
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.
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.
To Jun 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 13,339 · Dec 2025 |
| Data coverage | Dec 2018 – Jun 2026 (51 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Jun 2026 | 1,985 tonnes |
| Destination region | China |
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.