Passengers
28,555
Sydney to Houston, 12 months to Mar 2026
Sydney to Houston
USA · 90 months of data from Jan 1985 · Houston to Sydney
Both directions
53,040
including Houston to Sydney
Load factor
77%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to Mar 2026
28,555 passengers flew Sydney to Houston in the 12 months to Mar 2026, out of 53,040 on the route in both directions. Traffic leans outbound: 28,555 departing against 24,485 arriving. Flights Sydney to Houston run 77% full, against 65% 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 1985
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Latest complete year · also peak
2019
110,016 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Sydney; the ring marks the distance to Houston.
Passengers, 1985 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 Mar 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 Mar 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 13,543 · Dec 2019 |
| Data coverage | Jan 1985 – Mar 2026 (90 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Mar 2026 | 673 tonnes |
| Destination region | USA |
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.