Passenger traffic last recorded
May 2024
no passengers recorded in later published months
Melbourne to Port Vila
Vanuatu · 269 months of data from Jan 1985
Years of data
22
Jan 1985 – Sep 2024
Busiest month
3,270
Jul 2019
Traffic: to Jun 2026
Passenger traffic between Melbourne and Port Vila was last recorded in May 2024, after 93,747 passengers had been recorded since 2003. At its busiest the route carried 3,270 passengers in a single month, in Jul 2019.
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
Peak complete year
2009
13,573 passengers
Latest complete year
2023
11,095 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Melbourne; the ring marks the distance to Port Vila.
Passengers, 1985 to 2024
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 Sep 2024 · 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 Sep 2024
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 3,270 · Jul 2019 |
| Data coverage | Jan 1985 – Sep 2024 (269 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Sep 2024 | 6 tonnes |
| Destination region | Vanuatu |
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.