Passengers
49,862
Singapore to Cairns, 12 months to Jun 2026
Singapore to Cairns
428 months of data from Aug 1986 · Cairns to Singapore
Both directions
104,280
including Cairns to Singapore
Flight time
6h 30m
scheduled, gate to gate
Load factor
79%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026
49,862 passengers flew Singapore to Cairns in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 104,280 on the route in both directions. Traffic leans outbound: 54,418 departing against 49,862 arriving. Flights Singapore to Cairns run 79% full, against 86% coming back. This route has been reported for 36 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
Aug 1986
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Peak complete year
2000
105,472 passengers
Latest complete year
2025
104,793 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Cairns; the ring marks the distance to Singapore.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Singapore to Cairns is 6h 30m gate to gate, over 5,008 km. The return leg is scheduled at much the same, 6h 25m.
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 Singapore to Cairns. These are the numbers you book under.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Mon, Wed, Fri and Sun (4 departures).
Singapore · 1 · Airbus A350-900
SQ203
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
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.
To Jun 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 11,150 · Dec 2000 |
| Data coverage | Aug 1986 – Jun 2026 (428 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Jun 2026 | 1,474 tonnes |
| Destination region | Singapore |
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.