Passenger traffic last recorded
Mar 2007
no passengers recorded in later published months
Melbourne to Sapporo
Japan · 57 months of data from Jul 1993
Flights between Melbourne and Sapporo 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
5
Jul 1993 – Jul 2025
Busiest month
581
Mar 2007
Traffic: to Jun 2026
Passenger traffic between Melbourne and Sapporo was last recorded in Mar 2007, after 1,661 passengers had been recorded since 2003. At its busiest the route carried 581 passengers in a single month, in Mar 2007.
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
Jul 1993
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Peak complete year
1996
723 passengers
Latest complete year
1997
583 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Melbourne; the ring marks the distance to Sapporo.
Passengers, 1993 to 2025
Not enough data to chart.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Not enough data to chart.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Not enough data to chart.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
To Jul 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.
Load factor: seats data from 2009
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 Jul 2025
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 581 · Mar 2007 |
| Data coverage | Jul 1993 – Jul 2025 (57 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Jul 2025 | 2 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.