Passengers
4,922
Palau to Brisbane, 12 months to Jun 2026
Palau to Brisbane
27 months of data from Feb 2023 · Brisbane to Palau
Flights on this pair are non-stop, but the aircraft usually continues beyond Palau 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
9,754
including Brisbane to Palau
Flight time
5h 40m
30m shorter than the return
Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026
4,922 passengers flew Palau to Brisbane in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 9,754 on the route 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
Feb 2023
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Latest complete year · also peak
2025
7,587 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Brisbane; the ring marks the distance to Palau.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Palau to Brisbane is 5h 40m gate to gate, over 4,335 km. Coming back takes 6h 10m — 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 Palau to Brisbane. These are the numbers you book under.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Sun (1 departure).
Qantas · 1 · Boeing 737-800 (winglets)
QF166
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, 2023 to 2026
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
To Jun 2026 · Marks show industry events
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 | 1,061 · May 2026 |
| Data coverage | Feb 2023 – Jun 2026 (27 months) |
| Destination region | Palau |
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.