Passenger traffic last recorded
May 2009
no passengers recorded in later published months
Sydney to Bombay
India · 199 months of data from Jan 1985
Years of data
17
Jan 1985 – May 2009
Busiest month
8,676
Oct 2004
Traffic: to Jun 2026
Passenger traffic between Sydney and Bombay was last recorded in May 2009, after 294,943 passengers had been recorded since 2003. At its busiest the route carried 8,676 passengers in a single month, in Oct 2004.
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
Jan 1985
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Peak complete year
2005
68,848 passengers
Latest complete year
2008
58,716 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Sydney; the ring marks the distance to Bombay.
Passengers, 1985 to 2009
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
To May 2009 · 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.
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 May 2009
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 8,676 · Oct 2004 |
| Data coverage | Jan 1985 – May 2009 (199 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to May 2009 | 957 tonnes |
| Destination region | India |
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.