Passenger traffic last recorded
Apr 2005
no passengers recorded in later published months
Sydney to Kota Kinabalu
Malaysia · 51 months of data from Oct 2000
Years of data
4
Oct 2000 – Sep 2025
Busiest month
3,916
Jul 2004
Traffic: to Jun 2026
Passenger traffic between Sydney and Kota Kinabalu was last recorded in Apr 2005, after 50,267 passengers had been recorded since 2003. At its busiest the route carried 3,916 passengers in a single month, in Jul 2004.
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
Oct 2000
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Latest complete year · also peak
2004
31,899 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Sydney; the ring marks the distance to Kota Kinabalu.
Passengers, 2000 to 2025
Not enough data to chart.
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 Sep 2025 · 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.
Load factor: seats data from 2009
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 Sep 2025
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 3,916 · Jul 2004 |
| Data coverage | Oct 2000 – Sep 2025 (51 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Sep 2025 | 2 tonnes |
| Destination region | Malaysia |
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.