Passengers
13,703
Sydney to Hangzhou, 12 months to May 2026
Sydney to Hangzhou
China · 105 months of data from Jan 2011 · Hangzhou to Sydney
Both directions
28,571
including Hangzhou to Sydney
Load factor
53%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to May 2026
13,703 passengers flew Sydney to Hangzhou in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 28,571 on the route in both directions. Traffic leans inbound: 14,868 arriving against 13,703 departing. Flights Sydney to Hangzhou run 53% full, against 59% 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
Jan 2011
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Peak complete year
2019
37,700 passengers
Latest complete year
2025
29,244 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Sydney; the ring marks the distance to Hangzhou.
Passengers, 2011 to 2026
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
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.
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.
To May 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 3,863 · Aug 2019 |
| Data coverage | Jan 2011 – May 2026 (105 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to May 2026 | 672 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.