Passengers
18,912
Melbourne to Seoul, 12 months to Mar 2026
Melbourne to Seoul
Korea · 225 months of data from Nov 1991 · Seoul to Melbourne
Both directions
36,483
including Seoul to Melbourne
Load factor
95%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to Mar 2026
18,912 passengers flew Melbourne to Seoul in the 12 months to Mar 2026, out of 36,483 on the route in both directions. Traffic leans outbound: 18,912 departing against 17,571 arriving. Flights Melbourne to Seoul run 95% full, against 87% 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
Nov 1991
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Peak complete year
2010
54,482 passengers
Latest complete year
2012
54,249 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Melbourne; the ring marks the distance to Seoul.
Passengers, 1991 to 2026
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
To Mar 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 Mar 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 7,774 · Jan 2026 |
| Data coverage | Nov 1991 – Mar 2026 (225 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Mar 2026 | 605 tonnes |
| Destination region | Korea |
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.