Passengers
142,401
Melbourne to Nadi, 12 months to Jun 2026
Melbourne to Nadi
Fiji · 480 months of data from Jan 1985 · Nadi to Melbourne
Both directions
285,501
including Nadi to Melbourne
Flight time
4h 20m
1h 10m shorter than the return
Load factor
81%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026
142,401 passengers flew Melbourne to Nadi in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 285,501 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 81% full, much the same in both directions. This route has been reported for 40 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
287,889 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Melbourne; the ring marks the distance to Nadi.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Melbourne to Nadi is 4h 20m gate to gate, over 3,867 km. Coming back takes 5h 30m — a difference of 1h 10m, so this direction is the quicker 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
3 flight numbers currently scheduled from Melbourne to Nadi. These are the numbers you book under.
Scheduled every day this week — 13 departures in all.
Fiji · 1 · Airbus A330-200, Airbus A350-900, Boeing 737
FJ934
Jetstar · 1 · Airbus A320
JQ121
Virgin Australia · 1 · Boeing 737
VA195
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
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
To Jun 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.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
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.
Freight
Tonnes of air freight carried on this route — a dimension the domestic data does not have at all.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
To Jun 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 29,114 · Jan 2025 |
| Data coverage | Jan 1985 – Jun 2026 (480 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Jun 2026 | 4,559 tonnes |
| Destination region | Fiji |
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.