Passengers
19,867
Qingdao to Sydney, 12 months to Jun 2026
Qingdao to Sydney
China · 70 months of data from Dec 2010 · Sydney to Qingdao
Both directions
39,373
including Sydney to Qingdao
Flight time
11h 15m
25m shorter than the return
Load factor
71%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026
19,867 passengers flew Qingdao to Sydney in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 39,373 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 71% 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
Oct 2017
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Peak complete year
2019
50,010 passengers
Latest complete year
2024
34,348 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Sydney; the ring marks the distance to Qingdao.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Qingdao to Sydney is 11h 15m gate to gate, over 8,427 km. Coming back takes 11h 40m — a difference of 25m, 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 Qingdao to Sydney. These are the numbers you book under.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Mon (1 departure).
Beijing Capital · 1 · Airbus A330-300
JD479
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
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
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.
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 | 5,842 · Feb 2018 |
| Data coverage | Dec 2010 – Jun 2026 (70 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Jun 2026 | 1,079 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.