Passengers
10,530
Sydney to Chongqing, 12 months to May 2026
Sydney to Chongqing
China · 169 months of data from Apr 2012 · Chongqing to Sydney
Both directions
21,278
including Chongqing to Sydney
Flight time
11h 5m
40m longer than the return
Load factor
74%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to May 2026
10,530 passengers flew Sydney to Chongqing in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 21,278 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 74% full, much the same in both directions.
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
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 | 4,197 · Jul 2014 |
| Data coverage | Apr 2012 – May 2026 (169 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to May 2026 | 747 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.