Passengers
20,867
Sydney to Nanjing, 12 months to Jun 2026
Sydney to Nanjing
China · 131 months of data from Oct 2010 · Nanjing to Sydney
Flights on this pair are non-stop, but the aircraft usually continues beyond Nanjing rather than terminating there. That is why the seat figures below cover more than this one pair, and why the load factor is given as a floor rather than an exact number.
Both directions
42,709
including Nanjing to Sydney
Flight time
11h 5m
scheduled, gate to gate
At least
58%
full on this leg — a conservative floor
Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026
20,867 passengers flew Sydney to Nanjing in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 42,709 on the route 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
Dec 2012
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Latest complete year · also peak
2025
46,100 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Sydney; the ring marks the distance to Nanjing.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Sydney to Nanjing is 11h 5m gate to gate, over 8,022 km. The return leg is scheduled at much the same, 11h 5m.
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
1 flight number currently scheduled from Sydney to Nanjing. These are the numbers you book under.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Fri and Sun (2 departures).
China Eastern · 1 · Airbus A330, Airbus A330-200
MU792
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, 2010 to 2026
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.
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.
To Jun 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 4,644 · Aug 2024 |
| Data coverage | Oct 2010 – Jun 2026 (131 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Jun 2026 | 811 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.