Passengers
205,138
Sydney to Doha, 12 months to Jun 2026
Sydney to Doha
Qatar · 128 months of data from Jan 2007 · Doha to Sydney
Both directions
419,477
including Doha to Sydney
Flight time
14h 50m
45m longer than the return
Load factor
85%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026
205,138 passengers flew Sydney to Doha in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 419,477 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 85% 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
Mar 2016
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Peak complete year
2019
514,340 passengers
Latest complete year
2025
461,378 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Sydney; the ring marks the distance to Doha.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Sydney to Doha is 14h 50m gate to gate, over 12,371 km. Coming back takes 14h 5m — a difference of 45m, 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
3 flight numbers currently scheduled from Sydney to Doha. These are the numbers you book under.
Scheduled every day this week — 15 departures in all.
Qatar · 2 · Boeing 777-300ER
QR909 · QR8400
Virgin Australia · 1 · Boeing 777-300ER
VA1
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, 2007 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.
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.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
To Jun 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 50,647 · Aug 2025 |
| Data coverage | Jan 2007 – Jun 2026 (128 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Jun 2026 | 7,853 tonnes |
| Destination region | Qatar |
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.