Passenger traffic last recorded
Mar 2024
no passengers recorded in later published months
Melbourne to Osaka
Japan · 143 months of data from Sep 1994
Flights between Melbourne and Osaka carry one flight number the whole way but stop somewhere en route — no aircraft has been recorded flying the pair without an intermediate stop. It is a single bookable service, not a connection.
Years of data
12
Sep 1994 – Feb 2025
Busiest month
1,310
Mar 1997
Traffic: to Jun 2026
Passenger traffic between Melbourne and Osaka was last recorded in Mar 2024, after 13,238 passengers had been recorded since 2003. At its busiest the route carried 1,310 passengers in a single month, in Mar 1997.
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
Sep 1994
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Peak complete year
1996
7,447 passengers
Latest complete year
2016
2,005 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Melbourne; the ring marks the distance to Osaka.
Passengers, 1994 to 2025
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
To Feb 2025 · 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.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
To Feb 2025
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 1,310 · Mar 1997 |
| Data coverage | Sep 1994 – Feb 2025 (143 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Feb 2025 | 1 tonnes |
| Destination region | Japan |
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.