Passengers
80,398
New Delhi to Melbourne, 12 months to Jun 2026
New Delhi to Melbourne
India · 151 months of data from Jun 1990 · Melbourne to New Delhi
Both directions
163,487
including Melbourne to New Delhi
Flight time
11h 45m
30m shorter than the return
Load factor
86%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026
80,398 passengers flew New Delhi to Melbourne in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 163,487 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 86% full, much the same in both directions.
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 1990
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Peak complete year
2024
236,344 passengers
Latest complete year
2025
180,383 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Melbourne; the ring marks the distance to New Delhi.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from New Delhi to Melbourne is 11h 45m gate to gate, over 10,175 km. Coming back takes 12h 15m — a difference of 30m, so this direction is the quicker 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 New Delhi to Melbourne. These are the numbers you book under.
Scheduled every day this week — 7 departures in all.
Air India · 1 · Boeing 777-300ER
AI308
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, 1990 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.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
To Jun 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 24,553 · Jan 2024 |
| Data coverage | Jun 1990 – Jun 2026 (151 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Jun 2026 | 3,204 tonnes |
| Destination region | India |
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.