Passengers
246,019
Ho Chi Minh City to Melbourne, 12 months to May 2026
Ho Chi Minh City to Melbourne
Vietnam · 364 months of data from Nov 1995 · Melbourne to Ho Chi Minh City
Both directions
486,743
including Melbourne to Ho Chi Minh City
Flight time
8h 10m
25m shorter than the return
Load factor
83%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to May 2026
246,019 passengers flew Ho Chi Minh City to Melbourne in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 486,743 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 83% full, much the same in both directions. This route has been reported for 30 years.
The route
Distances are true from Melbourne; the ring marks the distance to Ho Chi Minh City.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Ho Chi Minh City to Melbourne is 8h 10m gate to gate, over 6,683 km. Coming back takes 8h 35m — a difference of 25m, 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 Ho Chi Minh City to Melbourne. These are the numbers you book under.
Scheduled every day this week — 15 departures in all.
Jetstar · 1 · Boeing 787-8
JQ64
VietJetAir · 1 · Airbus A330, Airbus A330-300
VJ81
Vietnam · 1 · Airbus A350-900
VN781
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, 1995 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 | 47,837 · Jan 2025 |
| Data coverage | Nov 1995 – May 2026 (364 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to May 2026 | 12,469 tonnes |
| Destination region | Vietnam |
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.