Passengers
50,197
Singapore to Cairns, 12 months to May 2026
Singapore to Cairns
427 months of data from Aug 1986 · Cairns to Singapore
Both directions
105,010
including Cairns to Singapore
Flight time
6h 30m
scheduled, gate to gate
Load factor
79%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to May 2026
50,197 passengers flew Singapore to Cairns in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 105,010 on the route in both directions. Traffic leans outbound: 54,813 departing against 50,197 arriving. Flights Singapore to Cairns run 79% full, against 87% coming back. This route has been reported for 36 years.
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
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 | 11,150 · Dec 2000 |
| Data coverage | Aug 1986 – May 2026 (427 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to May 2026 | 1,543 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.