Passengers
4,617
Melbourne to Qingdao, 12 months to Jun 2026
Melbourne to Qingdao
China · 78 months of data from Sep 2016 · Qingdao to Melbourne
Both directions
10,064
including Qingdao to Melbourne
Flight time
11h 20m
25m shorter than the return
Load factor
66%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026
4,617 passengers flew Melbourne to Qingdao in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 10,064 on the route in both directions. Traffic leans inbound: 5,447 arriving against 4,617 departing. Flights Melbourne to Qingdao run 66% full, against 78% coming back.
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 2016
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Peak complete year
2017
51,756 passengers
Latest complete year
2024
38,404 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Melbourne; the ring marks the distance to Qingdao.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Melbourne to Qingdao is 11h 20m gate to gate, over 8,585 km. Coming back takes 11h 45m — a difference of 25m, 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
1 flight number currently scheduled from Melbourne to Qingdao. These are the numbers you book under.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Sun (1 departure).
Beijing Capital · 1 · Airbus A330
JD462
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, 2016 to 2026
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
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.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
To Jun 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 5,780 · Jan 2025 |
| Data coverage | Sep 2016 – Jun 2026 (78 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Jun 2026 | 175 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.