Passengers
868,050
Melbourne to Singapore, 12 months to Jun 2026
Melbourne to Singapore
498 months of data from Jan 1985 · Singapore to Melbourne
Both directions
1,739,044
including Singapore to Melbourne
Flight time
8h
45m longer than the return
At least
79%
full on this leg — a conservative floor
Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026
868,050 passengers flew Melbourne to Singapore in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 1,739,044 on the route in both directions. This route has been reported for 42 years.
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
2024
1,779,035 passengers
Latest complete year
2025
1,741,885 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Melbourne; the ring marks the distance to Singapore.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Melbourne to Singapore is 8h gate to gate, over 6,024 km. Coming back takes 7h 15m — a difference of 45m, so this direction is the slower 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
12 flight numbers currently scheduled from Melbourne to Singapore. These are the numbers you book under.
Scheduled every day this week — 68 departures in all.
Singapore · 5 · Airbus A350-900, Airbus A380-800, Boeing 747, Boeing 777-300ER
SQ208 · SQ218 · SQ228 · SQ238 · SQ248
Qantas · 3 · Airbus A330-200, Boeing 787-8, Airbus A330-300
QF35 · QF37 · QF291
Scoot · 2 · Boeing 787-9
TR39 · TR59
Jetstar · 1 · Boeing 787-8
JQ7
Turkish · 1 · Airbus A350-900
TK169
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, 1985 to 2026
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.
To Jun 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 170,469 · Jan 2025 |
| Data coverage | Jan 1985 – Jun 2026 (498 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Jun 2026 | 69,079 tonnes |
| Destination region | Singapore |
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.