Passengers
23,052
Nanjing to Sydney, 12 months to May 2026
Nanjing to Sydney
China · 130 months of data from Oct 2010 · Sydney to Nanjing
Flights on this pair are non-stop, but the aircraft usually continues beyond Nanjing rather than terminating there. That is why the seat figures below cover more than this one pair, and why the load factor is given as a floor rather than an exact number.
Both directions
45,286
including Sydney to Nanjing
Flight time
11h 5m
scheduled, gate to gate
At least
62%
full on this leg — a conservative floor
Traffic: 12 months to May 2026
23,052 passengers flew Nanjing to Sydney in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 45,286 on the route in both directions.
The route
Distances are true from Sydney; the ring marks the distance to Nanjing.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Nanjing to Sydney is 11h 5m gate to gate, over 8,022 km. The return leg is scheduled at much the same, 11h 5m.
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 Sydney. These are the numbers you book under.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Fri and Sun (3 departures).
China Eastern · 1 · Airbus A330, Airbus A330-200
MU791
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 | 4,644 · Aug 2024 |
| Data coverage | Oct 2010 – May 2026 (130 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to May 2026 | 934 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.