Passengers
41,248
Melbourne to Dallas, 12 months to May 2026
Melbourne to Dallas
USA · 43 months of data from Mar 2000 · Dallas to Melbourne
Flights on this pair are non-stop, but the aircraft usually continues beyond Dallas rather than terminating there. That is why the seat figures below cover more than this one pair, and why the load factor is given as a floor rather than an exact number.
Both directions
78,365
including Dallas to Melbourne
Flight time
16h 10m
1h 30m shorter than the return
At least
84%
full on this leg — a conservative floor
Traffic: 12 months to May 2026
41,248 passengers flew Melbourne to Dallas in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 78,365 on the route in both directions. Traffic leans outbound: 41,248 departing against 37,117 arriving.
The route
Distances are true from Melbourne; the ring marks the distance to Dallas.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Melbourne to Dallas is 16h 10m gate to gate, over 14,472 km. Coming back takes 17h 40m — a difference of 1h 30m, 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
1 flight number currently scheduled from Melbourne to Dallas. These are the numbers you book under.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Mon, Wed and Sat (3 departures).
Qantas · 1 · Boeing 787-9
QF21
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, 2000 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 | 11,106 · Jan 2026 |
| Data coverage | Mar 2000 – May 2026 (43 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to May 2026 | 507 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.