Passengers
188,340
Melbourne to Doha, 12 months to Jun 2026
Melbourne to Doha
Qatar · 200 months of data from Mar 2009 · Doha to Melbourne
Both directions
383,051
including Doha to Melbourne
Flight time
14h 5m
35m longer than the return
Load factor
92%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026
188,340 passengers flew Melbourne to Doha in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 383,051 on the route in both directions. Flights Melbourne to Doha run 92% full, against 54% coming back.
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
Dec 2009
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Latest complete year · also peak
2025
452,431 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Melbourne; the ring marks the distance to Doha.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Melbourne to Doha is 14h 5m gate to gate, over 11,950 km. Coming back takes 13h 30m — a difference of 35m, 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
4 flight numbers currently scheduled from Melbourne to Doha. These are the numbers you book under.
Scheduled every day this week — 18 departures in all.
Qatar · 2 · Boeing 777-300ER
QR905 · QR8402
Virgin Australia · 2 · Boeing 777-300ER, Boeing 777
VA7 · VA6127
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, 2009 to 2026
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.
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.
To Jun 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 54,970 · Dec 2025 |
| Data coverage | Mar 2009 – Jun 2026 (200 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Jun 2026 | 12,000 tonnes |
| Destination region | Qatar |
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.