Passengers
67,355
Melbourne to Chengdu, 12 months to Jun 2026
Melbourne to Chengdu
China · 129 months of data from Dec 2008 · Chengdu to Melbourne
Both directions
131,069
including Chengdu to Melbourne
Load factor
86%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026
67,355 passengers flew Melbourne to Chengdu in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 131,069 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 86% full, much the same in both directions.
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
Feb 2013
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Latest complete year · also peak
2025
135,238 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Melbourne; the ring marks the distance to Chengdu.
Flight numbers on this route
1 flight number currently scheduled from Melbourne to Chengdu. These are the numbers you book under.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Tue, Fri and Sat (3 departures).
Sichuan · 1 · Airbus A330-200
3U3886
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, 2008 to 2026
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.
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 | 17,520 · Jan 2025 |
| Data coverage | Dec 2008 – Jun 2026 (129 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Jun 2026 | 3,574 tonnes |
| Destination region | China |
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.