Passengers
16,703
Honolulu to Melbourne, 12 months to Jun 2026
Honolulu to Melbourne
USA · 485 months of data from Jan 1985 · Melbourne to Honolulu
Both directions
31,255
including Melbourne to Honolulu
Load factor
74%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026
16,703 passengers flew Honolulu to Melbourne in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 31,255 on the route in both directions. Traffic leans inbound: 16,703 arriving against 14,552 departing. Flights Honolulu to Melbourne run 74% full, against 64% coming back. This route has been reported for 40 years.
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
Jan 1985
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Peak complete year
2017
107,504 passengers
Latest complete year
2025
54,075 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Melbourne; the ring marks the distance to Honolulu.
Passengers, 1985 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.
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 | 11,308 · Jul 1991 |
| Data coverage | Jan 1985 – Jun 2026 (485 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Jun 2026 | 261 tonnes |
| Destination region | USA |
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.