Australian Flight Data

Melbourne to Jakarta

Indonesia · 423 months of data from Jan 1985 · Jakarta to Melbourne

Passengers
68,831
Melbourne to Jakarta, 12 months to Jun 2026
Both directions
139,867
including Jakarta to Melbourne
Flight time
7h 15m
55m longer than the return
Load factor
77%
seats filled on this leg

Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026

68,831 passengers flew Melbourne to Jakarta in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 139,867 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 77% full, much the same in both directions. This route has been reported for 35 years.

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
Jan 1985
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Latest complete year · also peak
2025
134,927 passengers

The route

Melbourne Jakarta

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

How long is the flight?

Scheduled flight time from Melbourne to Jakarta is 7h 15m gate to gate, over 5,206 km. Coming back takes 6h 20m — a difference of 55m, 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

2 flight numbers currently scheduled from Melbourne to Jakarta. These are the numbers you book under.

Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Mon, Tue, Fri and Sat (6 departures).

Garuda Indonesia · 1 · Airbus A330-200, Airbus A330-300

GA717

Qantas · 1 · Airbus A330-200

QF39

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, 1985 to 2026

07,99915,997 Jun 2025Dec 2025Jun 2026
07,99915,997Delta 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 Jun 2021: 71Dec 2021: 237Jun 2021Dec 2023Jun 2026

Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.

07,99915,997Tigerair Australia stops flying — Feb 2020 COVID-19 border closures begin — Mar 2020 The deepest month: domestic traffic falls 96% — Apr 2020 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 Dec 2021: 237Jun 2016Jun 2021Jun 2026

Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.

07,99915,997The pilots' dispute grounds domestic aviation — Aug 1989 Domestic deregulation ends the Two Airline Policy — Oct 1990 Virgin Blue launches — Aug 2000 Ansett 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 Tigerair Australia stops flying — Feb 2020 COVID-19 border closures begin — Mar 2020 The deepest month: domestic traffic falls 96% — Apr 2020 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 Dec 2021: 237Jan 1985Oct 2005Jun 2026

Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.

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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.

67%79%92% Jun 2025Dec 2025Jun 2026
7%52%97% Jun 2021: 7%Dec 2021: 94%Jun 2021Dec 2023Jun 2026

Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.

3%50%98% Dec 2021: 94%Jun 2016Jun 2021Jun 2026

Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.

3%51%99% Dec 2006: 74%Dec 2021: 94%Dec 2006Sep 2016Jun 2026

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.

J: 1.28× the annual average J F: 0.86× the annual average F M: 0.79× the annual average M A: 0.92× the annual average A M: 0.75× the annual average M J: 1.14× the annual average J J: 1.28× the annual average J A: 0.93× the annual average A S: 0.89× the annual average S O: 1.07× the annual average O N: 0.80× the annual average N D: 1.29× the annual average D

Freight

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

0216432 Jun 2025Dec 2025Jun 2026
0233467 Jun 2021: 39Dec 2021: 56Feb 2022: 39Jun 2021Dec 2023Jun 2026

Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.

0245491 Dec 2021: 56Feb 2022: 39Jun 2016Jun 2021Jun 2026

Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.

0264527 Nov 2003: 3Dec 2021: 56Feb 2022: 39Jan 1985Oct 2005Jun 2026

Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.

To Jun 2026

The route in numbers

Busiest month on record15,997 · Jul 2025
Data coverageJan 1985 – Jun 2026 (423 months)
Freight, 12 months to Jun 20263,488 tonnes
Destination regionIndonesia

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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