Passengers
40,274
Melbourne to Bandar Seri Begawan, 12 months to May 2026
Melbourne to Bandar Seri Begawan
Brunei · 187 months of data from Jan 1985 · Bandar Seri Begawan to Melbourne
Both directions
82,138
including Bandar Seri Begawan to Melbourne
Flight time
7h 10m
15m longer than the return
Load factor
61%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to May 2026
40,274 passengers flew Melbourne to Bandar Seri Begawan in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 82,138 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 61% full, much the same in both directions.
The route
Distances are true from Melbourne; the ring marks the distance to Bandar Seri Begawan.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Melbourne to Bandar Seri Begawan is 7h 10m gate to gate, over 5,644 km. Coming back takes 6h 55m — a difference of 15m, so this direction is the slower 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 Melbourne to Bandar Seri Begawan. These are the numbers you book under.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Tue, Thu, Fri, Sat and Sun (5 departures).
Royal Brunei · 1 · Boeing 787-8
BI6
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
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 | 15,077 · Jan 2014 |
| Data coverage | Jan 1985 – May 2026 (187 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to May 2026 | 3,389 tonnes |
| Destination region | Brunei |
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.