Passenger traffic last recorded
Jun 2022
no passengers recorded in later published months
Sydney to Kunming
China · 44 months of data from Nov 2016
Years of data
4
Nov 2016 – Jun 2022
Busiest month
5,307
Dec 2016
Traffic: to Jun 2026
Passenger traffic between Sydney and Kunming was last recorded in Jun 2022, after 152,317 passengers had been recorded since 2003. At its busiest the route carried 5,307 passengers in a single month, in Dec 2016.
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
Nov 2016
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Peak complete year
2017
51,338 passengers
Latest complete year
2019
43,401 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Sydney; the ring marks the distance to Kunming.
Passengers, 2016 to 2022
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
To Jun 2022 · 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.
Not enough data to chart.
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.
To Jun 2022
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 5,307 · Dec 2016 |
| Data coverage | Nov 2016 – Jun 2022 (44 months) |
| 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.