Passengers
25,874
Nanjing to Melbourne, 12 months to May 2026
Nanjing to Melbourne
China · 25 months of data from Oct 2010 · Melbourne to Nanjing
Both directions
48,406
including Melbourne to Nanjing
Flight time
10h 25m
scheduled, gate to gate
Load factor
70%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to May 2026
25,874 passengers flew Nanjing to Melbourne in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 48,406 on the route in both directions. Traffic leans inbound: 25,874 arriving against 22,532 departing. Flights Nanjing to Melbourne run 70% full, against 60% coming back.
The route
Distances are true from Melbourne; the ring marks the distance to Nanjing.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Nanjing to Melbourne is 10h 25m gate to gate, over 8,145 km.
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 Nanjing to Melbourne. These are the numbers you book under.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Thu and Sat (2 departures).
China Eastern · 1 · Airbus A330-200
MU851
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, 2010 to 2026
To May 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.
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 May 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 5,145 · Nov 2025 |
| Data coverage | Oct 2010 – May 2026 (25 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to May 2026 | 1,499 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.