Australian Flight Data

Nadi to Sydney

Fiji · 497 months of data from Jan 1985 · Sydney to Nadi

Passengers
290,252
Nadi to Sydney, 12 months to May 2026
Both directions
576,171
including Sydney to Nadi
Flight time
4h 50m
50m longer than the return
Load factor
87%
seats filled on this leg

Traffic: 12 months to May 2026

290,252 passengers flew Nadi to Sydney in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 576,171 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 87% full, much the same in both directions. This route has been reported for 41 years.

The route

Sydney Nadi

Distances are true from Sydney; the ring marks the distance to Nadi.

How long is the flight?

Scheduled flight time from Nadi to Sydney is 4h 50m gate to gate, over 3,170 km. Coming back takes 4h — a difference of 50m, 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

5 flight numbers currently scheduled from Nadi to Sydney. These are the numbers you book under.

Scheduled every day this week — 31 departures in all.

Fiji · 2 · Airbus A350-900, Boeing 737, Boeing 737-800

FJ911 · FJ915

Jetstar · 1 · Airbus A320

JQ120

Qantas · 1 · Boeing 737-800

QF102

Virgin Australia · 1 · Boeing 737

VA182

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

027,77155,541 May 2025Nov 2025May 2026
030,41060,819Delta lockdowns close the eastern states — Jul 2021 Omicron wave hits crew availability — Jan 2022 Bonza launches on leisure routes — Nov 2023 Bonza collapses after 15 months — Mar 2024 Rex enters administration and exits the trunk routes — Aug 2024 Cyclone Alfred closes south-east Queensland airports — Mar 2025 May 2021Nov 2023May 2026
030,41060,819Tigerair Australia stops flying — Feb 2020 COVID-19 border closures begin — Mar 2020 The deepest month: domestic traffic falls 96% — Apr 2020 Rex enters the trunk routes with jets — Mar 2021 Delta lockdowns close the eastern states — Jul 2021 Omicron wave hits crew availability — Jan 2022 Bonza launches on leisure routes — Nov 2023 Bonza collapses after 15 months — Mar 2024 Rex enters administration and exits the trunk routes — Aug 2024 Cyclone Alfred closes south-east Queensland airports — Mar 2025 May 2016May 2021May 2026
030,41060,819The pilots' dispute grounds domestic aviation — Aug 1989 Domestic deregulation ends the Two Airline Policy — Oct 1990 Virgin Blue launches — Aug 2000 Ansett Australia collapses — Sep 2001 Jetstar launches — May 2004 OzJet's all-business experiment ends within months — Jan 2006 Tiger Airways Australia enters the market — Apr 2008 Volcanic ash cloud disrupts southern Australia — Jun 2011 Qantas grounds its entire fleet — Oct 2011 Skywest becomes Virgin Australia Regional Airlines — May 2013 Tigerair Australia stops flying — Feb 2020 COVID-19 border closures begin — Mar 2020 The deepest month: domestic traffic falls 96% — Apr 2020 Rex enters the trunk routes with jets — Mar 2021 Delta lockdowns close the eastern states — Jul 2021 Omicron wave hits crew availability — Jan 2022 Bonza launches on leisure routes — Nov 2023 Bonza collapses after 15 months — Mar 2024 Rex enters administration and exits the trunk routes — Aug 2024 Cyclone Alfred closes south-east Queensland airports — Mar 2025 Jan 1985Sep 2005May 2026

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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.

80%87%94% May 2025Nov 2025May 2026
3%49%95% May 2021Dec 2023May 2026
2%49%96% May 2016Jun 2021May 2026
2%49%96% Sep 2003Aug 2015May 2026

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.

J: 1.12× the annual average J F: 0.62× the annual average F M: 0.78× the annual average M A: 1.03× the annual average A M: 0.97× the annual average M J: 0.98× the annual average J J: 1.14× the annual average J A: 1.00× the annual average A S: 1.05× the annual average S O: 1.11× the annual average O N: 1.02× the annual average N D: 1.18× the annual average D

Freight

Tonnes of air freight carried on this route — a dimension the domestic data does not have at all.

0346692 May 2025Nov 2025May 2026
0434867 May 2021Nov 2023May 2026
0434867 May 2016May 2021May 2026
0442883 Jan 1985Sep 2005May 2026

To May 2026

The route in numbers

Busiest month on record60,819 · Jan 2023
Data coverageJan 1985 – May 2026 (497 months)
Freight, 12 months to May 20266,785 tonnes
Destination regionFiji

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.

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