Australian Flight Data

London to Perth

UK · 313 months of data from Jan 1985 · Perth to London

Passengers
79,002
London to Perth, 12 months to Jun 2026
Both directions
149,661
including Perth to London
Flight time
16h 50m
scheduled, gate to gate
At least
93%
full on this leg — a conservative floor

Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026

79,002 passengers flew London to Perth in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 149,661 on the route in both directions. Traffic leans inbound: 79,002 arriving against 70,659 departing. This route has been reported for 26 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
Latest complete year · also peak
2025
151,199 passengers

The route

Perth London

Distances are true from Perth; the ring marks the distance to London.

How long is the flight?

Scheduled flight time from London to Perth is 16h 50m gate to gate, over 14,499 km.

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 London to Perth. These are the numbers you book under.

The Perth to London direction does not appear in the current schedule feed. That does not mean it is not flown — it is simply not listed there.

Scheduled every day this week — 7 departures in all.

Qantas · 1 · Boeing 787-9

QF10

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

06,86313,725 Jun 2025Dec 2025Jun 2026
06,86313,725Omicron wave hits crew availability — Jan 2022 Bonza launches on leisure routes — Nov 2023 Bonza collapses after 15 months — Mar 2024 Rex enters administration and exits the trunk routes — Aug 2024 Cyclone Alfred closes south-east Queensland airports — Mar 2025 Sep 2021Feb 2024Jun 2026

Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.

06,86313,725Tigerair Australia stops flying — Feb 2020 COVID-19 border closures begin — Mar 2020 The deepest month: domestic traffic falls 96% — Apr 2020 Rex enters the trunk routes with jets — Mar 2021 Delta lockdowns close the eastern states — Jul 2021 Omicron wave hits crew availability — Jan 2022 Bonza launches on leisure routes — Nov 2023 Bonza collapses after 15 months — Mar 2024 Rex enters administration and exits the trunk routes — Aug 2024 Cyclone Alfred closes south-east Queensland airports — Mar 2025 Mar 2018May 2022Jun 2026

Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.

06,86313,725The pilots' dispute grounds domestic aviation — Aug 1989 Domestic deregulation ends the Two Airline Policy — Oct 1990 Virgin Blue launches — Aug 2000 Ansett Australia collapses — Sep 2001 Jetstar launches — May 2004 OzJet's all-business experiment ends within months — Jan 2006 Tiger Airways Australia enters the market — Apr 2008 Volcanic ash cloud disrupts southern Australia — Jun 2011 Qantas grounds its entire fleet — Oct 2011 Skywest becomes Virgin Australia Regional Airlines — May 2013 Tigerair Australia stops flying — Feb 2020 COVID-19 border closures begin — Mar 2020 The deepest month: domestic traffic falls 96% — Apr 2020 Rex enters the trunk routes with jets — Mar 2021 Delta lockdowns close the eastern states — Jul 2021 Omicron wave hits crew availability — Jan 2022 Bonza launches on leisure routes — Nov 2023 Bonza collapses after 15 months — Mar 2024 Rex enters administration and exits the trunk routes — Aug 2024 Cyclone Alfred closes south-east Queensland airports — Mar 2025 Oct 2003: 45Jan 1985Oct 2005Jun 2026

Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.

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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.

89%93%98% Jun 2025Dec 2025Jun 2026

Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.

29%64%98% May 2022Jun 2024Jun 2026

Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.

29%64%98% Mar 2018May 2022Jun 2026

Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.

29%64%98% Dec 2004: 56%Mar 2005: 46%Jun 2005: 37%Sep 2005: 55%Dec 2004Sep 2015Jun 2026

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.

J: 1.03× the annual average J F: 0.96× the annual average F M: 0.92× the annual average M A: 1.04× the annual average A M: 0.89× the annual average M J: 0.94× the annual average J J: 0.94× the annual average J A: 1.09× the annual average A S: 1.07× the annual average S O: 1.05× the annual average O N: 0.96× the annual average N D: 1.09× the annual average D

Freight

Tonnes of air freight carried on this route — a dimension the domestic data does not have at all.

04895 Jun 2025Dec 2025Jun 2026
04895 Sep 2021: 0Sep 2021Feb 2024Jun 2026

Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.

04895 Sep 2021: 0Mar 2018May 2022Jun 2026

Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.

0153306 Oct 2003: 0Sep 2021: 0Jan 1985Oct 2005Jun 2026

Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.

To Jun 2026

The route in numbers

Busiest month on record13,725 · Mar 2026
Data coverageJan 1985 – Jun 2026 (313 months)
Freight, 12 months to Jun 2026780 tonnes
Destination regionUK

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.

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