Passengers
15,900
Sydney to New York, 12 months to Jun 2026
Sydney to New York
USA · 489 months of data from Jan 1985 · New York to Sydney
Flights between Sydney and New York carry one flight number the whole way but stop somewhere en route — no aircraft has been recorded flying the pair without an intermediate stop. It is a single bookable service, not a connection.
Both directions
33,610
including New York to Sydney
At least
27%
full on this leg — a conservative floor
Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026
15,900 passengers flew Sydney to New York in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 33,610 on the route in both directions. Traffic leans inbound: 17,710 arriving against 15,900 departing. This route has been reported for 41 years.
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
Peak complete year
2013
96,779 passengers
Latest complete year
2025
33,140 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Sydney; the ring marks the distance to New York.
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.
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.
To Jun 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 9,694 · Jul 2014 |
| Data coverage | Jan 1985 – Jun 2026 (489 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Jun 2026 | 1,582 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.