Melbourne to Manila
Philippines · 494 months of data from Jan 1985 · Manila to Melbourne
Traffic: 12 months to May 2026
119,416 passengers flew Melbourne to Manila in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 253,155 on the route in both directions. Traffic leans inbound: 133,739 arriving against 119,416 departing. Flights Melbourne to Manila run 69% full, against 78% coming back. This route has been reported for 41 years.
The route
Distances are true from Melbourne; the ring marks the distance to Manila.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Melbourne to Manila is 8h 30m gate to gate, over 6,291 km. Coming back takes 8h 15m — a difference of 15m, 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 Manila. These are the numbers you book under.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Mon, Wed, Fri, Sat and Sun (9 departures).
Cebu Pacific Air · 1 · Airbus A330, Airbus A330-900
5J50
Philippine · 1 · Airbus A330-300
PR210
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
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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.
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 | 28,434 · Jan 2026 |
| Data coverage | Jan 1985 – May 2026 (494 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to May 2026 | 7,836 tonnes |
| Destination region | Philippines |
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.