Passengers
124,676
Perth to Dubai, 12 months to May 2026
Perth to Dubai
United Arab Emirates · 296 months of data from Oct 1986 · Dubai to Perth
Both directions
262,525
including Dubai to Perth
Flight time
10h 55m
scheduled, gate to gate
Load factor
59%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to May 2026
124,676 passengers flew Perth to Dubai in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 262,525 on the route in both directions. Traffic leans inbound: 137,849 arriving against 124,676 departing. Flights Perth to Dubai run 59% full, against 65% coming back. This route has been reported for 25 years.
The route
Distances are true from Perth; the ring marks the distance to Dubai.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Perth to Dubai is 10h 55m gate to gate, over 9,027 km. The return leg is scheduled at much the same, 10h 50m.
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 Perth to Dubai. These are the numbers you book under.
Scheduled every day this week — 7 departures in all.
Emirates · 1 · Airbus A380-800
EK421
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, 1986 to 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.
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 | 54,530 · Jan 2014 |
| Data coverage | Oct 1986 – May 2026 (296 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to May 2026 | 5,598 tonnes |
| Destination region | United Arab Emirates |
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.