Passengers
133,943
Santiago to Sydney, 12 months to Jun 2026
Santiago to Sydney
Chile · 294 months of data from Oct 1998 · Sydney to Santiago
Both directions
268,717
including Sydney to Santiago
Flight time
15h 15m
2h 30m longer than the return
Load factor
85%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026
133,943 passengers flew Santiago to Sydney in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 268,717 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 85% full, much the same in both directions. This route has been reported for 25 years.
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 1998
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Latest complete year · also peak
2025
233,649 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Sydney; the ring marks the distance to Santiago.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Santiago to Sydney is 15h 15m gate to gate, over 11,363 km. Coming back takes 12h 45m — a difference of 2h 30m, 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 Santiago to Sydney. These are the numbers you book under.
Scheduled every day this week — 10 departures in all.
LATAM · 1 · Boeing 787-9
LA809
Qantas · 1 · Boeing 787-9
QF28
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, 1998 to 2026
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.
To Jun 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 28,462 · Mar 2026 |
| Data coverage | Oct 1998 – Jun 2026 (294 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Jun 2026 | 6,291 tonnes |
| Destination region | Chile |
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.