Passengers
61,207
Perth to Johannesburg, 12 months to May 2026
Perth to Johannesburg
South Africa · 404 months of data from Jan 1985 · Johannesburg to Perth
Both directions
123,694
including Johannesburg to Perth
Flight time
11h 5m
1h 10m longer than the return
Load factor
95%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to May 2026
61,207 passengers flew Perth to Johannesburg in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 123,694 on the route in both directions. Flights Perth to Johannesburg run 95% full, against 79% coming back. This route has been reported for 34 years.
The route
Distances are true from Perth; the ring marks the distance to Johannesburg.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Perth to Johannesburg is 11h 5m gate to gate, over 8,325 km. Coming back takes 9h 55m — a difference of 1h 10m, so this direction is the slower 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
2 flight numbers currently scheduled from Perth to Johannesburg. These are the numbers you book under.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Mon, Tue, Wed, Fri and Sun (6 departures).
Qantas · 1 · Airbus A330-200
QF65
South African · 1 · Airbus A340-300
SA281
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, 1985 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 | 15,749 · Dec 2016 |
| Data coverage | Jan 1985 – May 2026 (404 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to May 2026 | 2,407 tonnes |
| Destination region | South Africa |
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.