Passengers
67,987
Sydney to Chengdu, 12 months to Jun 2026
Sydney to Chengdu
China · 81 months of data from Dec 2008 · Chengdu to Sydney
Both directions
130,357
including Chengdu to Sydney
Flight time
10h 55m
scheduled, gate to gate
Load factor
87%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026
67,987 passengers flew Sydney to Chengdu in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 130,357 on the route in both directions. Traffic leans outbound: 67,987 departing against 62,370 arriving. Flights Sydney to Chengdu run 87% full, against 81% coming back.
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
Nov 2016
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Latest complete year · also peak
2025
135,503 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Sydney; the ring marks the distance to Chengdu.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Sydney to Chengdu is 10h 55m gate to gate, over 8,643 km. The return leg is scheduled at much the same, 10h 50m.
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 Sydney to Chengdu. These are the numbers you book under.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Tue, Thu and Sun (3 departures).
Sichuan · 1 · Airbus A330-200
3U3892
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, 2008 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.
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 | 16,603 · Jan 2026 |
| Data coverage | Dec 2008 – Jun 2026 (81 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Jun 2026 | 3,410 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.