Passengers
9,456
Sydney to Chongqing, 12 months to Jun 2026
Sydney to Chongqing
China · 170 months of data from Apr 2012 · Chongqing to Sydney
Both directions
19,204
including Chongqing to Sydney
Flight time
11h 5m
40m longer than the return
Load factor
73%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026
9,456 passengers flew Sydney to Chongqing in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 19,204 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 73% full, much the same in both directions.
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
Dec 2013
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Peak complete year
2019
41,408 passengers
Latest complete year
2024
22,737 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Sydney; the ring marks the distance to Chongqing.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Sydney to Chongqing is 11h 5m gate to gate, over 8,462 km. Coming back takes 10h 25m — a difference of 40m, 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
1 flight number currently scheduled from Sydney to Chongqing. These are the numbers you book under.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Tue (1 departure).
Tianjin · 1 · Airbus A330-200
GS7944
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, 2012 to 2026
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
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.
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.
To Jun 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 4,197 · Jul 2014 |
| Data coverage | Apr 2012 – Jun 2026 (170 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Jun 2026 | 671 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.