Passengers
73,208
Melbourne to Xiamen, 12 months to Jun 2026
Melbourne to Xiamen
China · 99 months of data from Jun 2016 · Xiamen to Melbourne
Both directions
150,141
including Xiamen to Melbourne
Flight time
9h 45m
25m longer than the return
Load factor
81%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026
73,208 passengers flew Melbourne to Xiamen in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 150,141 on the route in both directions. Flights Melbourne to Xiamen run 81% full, against 86% 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
Jun 2016
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Latest complete year · also peak
2025
152,317 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Melbourne; the ring marks the distance to Xiamen.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Melbourne to Xiamen is 9h 45m gate to gate, over 7,433 km. Coming back takes 9h 20m — a difference of 25m, 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
1 flight number currently scheduled from Melbourne to Xiamen. These are the numbers you book under.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat and Sun (6 departures).
Xiamen · 1 · Boeing 787-9
MF804
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.
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.
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.
To Jun 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 16,350 · Apr 2025 |
| Data coverage | Jun 2016 – Jun 2026 (99 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Jun 2026 | 4,944 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.