Australian Flight Data

Melbourne to Hanoi

Vietnam · 244 months of data from Jan 1997 · Hanoi to Melbourne

Passengers
50,222
Melbourne to Hanoi, 12 months to May 2026
Both directions
97,212
including Hanoi to Melbourne
Flight time
9h 40m
scheduled, gate to gate
Load factor
77%
seats filled on this leg

Traffic: 12 months to May 2026

50,222 passengers flew Melbourne to Hanoi in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 97,212 on the route in both directions. Flights Melbourne to Hanoi run 77% full, against 72% coming back. This route has been reported for 20 years.

The route

Melbourne Hanoi

Distances are true from Melbourne; the ring marks the distance to Hanoi.

How long is the flight?

Scheduled flight time from Melbourne to Hanoi is 9h 40m gate to gate, over 7,694 km. The return leg is scheduled at much the same, 9h 30m.

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 Hanoi. These are the numbers you book under.

Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Mon, Wed, Fri and Sun (4 departures).

Vietnam · 1 · Airbus A350, Airbus A350-900

VN778

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, 1997 to 2026

06,41112,822 May 2025Nov 2025May 2026
06,71413,428Delta lockdowns close the eastern states — Jul 2021 Omicron wave hits crew availability — Jan 2022 Bonza launches on leisure routes — Nov 2023 Bonza collapses after 15 months — Mar 2024 Rex enters administration and exits the trunk routes — Aug 2024 Cyclone Alfred closes south-east Queensland airports — Mar 2025 May 2021Nov 2023May 2026
06,71413,428Rex enters the trunk routes with jets — Mar 2021 Delta lockdowns close the eastern states — Jul 2021 Omicron wave hits crew availability — Jan 2022 Bonza launches on leisure routes — Nov 2023 Bonza collapses after 15 months — Mar 2024 Rex enters administration and exits the trunk routes — Aug 2024 Cyclone Alfred closes south-east Queensland airports — Mar 2025 Nov 2017Jul 2023May 2026
06,71413,428Ansett Australia collapses — Sep 2001 Jetstar launches — May 2004 OzJet's all-business experiment ends within months — Jan 2006 Tiger Airways Australia enters the market — Apr 2008 Volcanic ash cloud disrupts southern Australia — Jun 2011 Qantas grounds its entire fleet — Oct 2011 Skywest becomes Virgin Australia Regional Airlines — May 2013 Rex enters the trunk routes with jets — Mar 2021 Delta lockdowns close the eastern states — Jul 2021 Omicron wave hits crew availability — Jan 2022 Bonza launches on leisure routes — Nov 2023 Bonza collapses after 15 months — Mar 2024 Rex enters administration and exits the trunk routes — Aug 2024 Cyclone Alfred closes south-east Queensland airports — Mar 2025 Jan 1997Jan 2010May 2026

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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.

50%71%92% May 2025Nov 2025May 2026
41%69%96% Dec 2021May 2024May 2026
41%69%96% Dec 2021May 2024May 2026
4%50%96% Sep 2003Oct 2011May 2026

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.

J: 1.17× the annual average J F: 0.96× the annual average F M: 0.96× the annual average M A: 0.85× the annual average A M: 0.69× the annual average M J: 0.99× the annual average J J: 1.28× the annual average J A: 0.91× the annual average A S: 1.07× the annual average S O: 1.05× the annual average O N: 0.96× the annual average N D: 1.09× the annual average D

Freight

Tonnes of air freight carried on this route — a dimension the domestic data does not have at all.

0194388 May 2025Nov 2025May 2026
0221442 May 2021Nov 2023May 2026
0221442 Nov 2017Jul 2023May 2026
0221442 Jan 1997Jan 2010May 2026

To May 2026

The route in numbers

Busiest month on record13,428 · Jan 2025
Data coverageJan 1997 – May 2026 (244 months)
Freight, 12 months to May 20263,883 tonnes
Destination regionVietnam

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.

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