Passengers
336,709
Melbourne to Kuala Lumpur, 12 months to May 2026
Melbourne to Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia · 497 months of data from Jan 1985 · Kuala Lumpur to Melbourne
Both directions
688,364
including Kuala Lumpur to Melbourne
Flight time
8h 40m
50m longer than the return
At least
67%
full on this leg — a conservative floor
Traffic: 12 months to May 2026
336,709 passengers flew Melbourne to Kuala Lumpur in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 688,364 on the route in both directions. This route has been reported for 41 years.
The route
Distances are true from Melbourne; the ring marks the distance to Kuala Lumpur.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Melbourne to Kuala Lumpur is 8h 40m gate to gate, over 6,306 km. Coming back takes 7h 50m — a difference of 50m, 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
5 flight numbers currently scheduled from Melbourne to Kuala Lumpur. These are the numbers you book under.
Scheduled every day this week — 25 departures in all.
Malaysia · 3 · Airbus A330-900, Airbus A330-300, Airbus A330
MH128 · MH146 · MH148
AirAsia X · 2 · Airbus A330-300
D7213 · D7219
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
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 | 93,467 · Dec 2013 |
| Data coverage | Jan 1985 – May 2026 (497 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to May 2026 | 21,092 tonnes |
| Destination region | Malaysia |
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.