Passengers
131,662
Manila to Melbourne, 12 months to Jun 2026
Manila to Melbourne
Philippines · 495 months of data from Jan 1985 · Melbourne to Manila
Both directions
249,917
including Melbourne to Manila
Flight time
8h 15m
15m shorter than the return
Load factor
78%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026
131,662 passengers flew Manila to Melbourne in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 249,917 on the route in both directions. Traffic leans inbound: 131,662 arriving against 118,255 departing. Flights Manila to Melbourne run 78% full, against 69% coming back. This route has been reported for 41 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
239,003 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Melbourne; the ring marks the distance to Manila.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Manila to Melbourne is 8h 15m gate to gate, over 6,291 km. Coming back takes 8h 30m — a difference of 15m, 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 Manila to Melbourne. These are the numbers you book under.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat and Sun (7 departures).
Cebu Pacific Air · 1 · Airbus A330, Airbus A330-900
5J49
Philippine · 1 · Airbus A330-300
PR209
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
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
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.
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.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
To Jun 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 28,434 · Jan 2026 |
| Data coverage | Jan 1985 – Jun 2026 (495 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Jun 2026 | 7,784 tonnes |
| Destination region | Philippines |
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.