Passengers
22,532
Melbourne to Nanjing, 12 months to May 2026
Melbourne to Nanjing
China · 25 months of data from Oct 2010 · Nanjing to Melbourne
Both directions
48,406
including Nanjing to Melbourne
Load factor
60%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to May 2026
22,532 passengers flew Melbourne to Nanjing in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 48,406 on the route in both directions. Traffic leans inbound: 25,874 arriving against 22,532 departing. Flights Melbourne to Nanjing run 60% full, against 70% coming back.
The route
Distances are true from Melbourne; the ring marks the distance to Nanjing.
Flight numbers on this route
1 flight number currently scheduled from Melbourne to Nanjing. These are the numbers you book under.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Thu and Sat (2 departures).
China Eastern · 1 · Airbus A330-200
MU852
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, 2010 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 | 5,145 · Nov 2025 |
| Data coverage | Oct 2010 – May 2026 (25 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to May 2026 | 1,499 tonnes |
| Destination region | China |
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.