Passengers
39,141
Melbourne to Haikou, 12 months to May 2026
Melbourne to Haikou
China · 50 months of data from Dec 2018 · Haikou to Melbourne
Both directions
74,038
including Haikou to Melbourne
Flight time
10h
30m longer than the return
Load factor
85%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to May 2026
39,141 passengers flew Melbourne to Haikou in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 74,038 on the route in both directions. Traffic leans outbound: 39,141 departing against 34,897 arriving. Flights Melbourne to Haikou run 85% full, against 75% coming back.
The route
Distances are true from Melbourne; the ring marks the distance to Haikou.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Melbourne to Haikou is 10h gate to gate, over 7,323 km. Coming back takes 9h 30m — a difference of 30m, 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 Haikou. These are the numbers you book under.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Tue, Fri and Sun (3 departures).
Hainan · 1 · Airbus A330-300
HU484
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, 2018 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 | 13,339 · Dec 2025 |
| Data coverage | Dec 2018 – May 2026 (50 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to May 2026 | 2,087 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.