Passengers
48,724
Sydney to Osaka, 12 months to May 2026
Sydney to Osaka
Japan · 354 months of data from Oct 1991 · Osaka to Sydney
Both directions
96,715
including Osaka to Sydney
Flight time
9h 50m
scheduled, gate to gate
Load factor
90%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to May 2026
48,724 passengers flew Sydney to Osaka in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 96,715 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 90% full, much the same in both directions. This route has been reported for 30 years.
The route
Distances are true from Sydney; the ring marks the distance to Osaka.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Sydney to Osaka is 9h 50m gate to gate, over 7,749 km. The return leg is scheduled at much the same, 9h 45m.
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 Osaka. These are the numbers you book under.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Tue, Thu and Sat (3 departures).
Jetstar · 1 · Boeing 787-8
JQ13
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, 1991 to 2026
To May 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.
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.
To May 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 37,508 · Aug 1998 |
| Data coverage | Oct 1991 – May 2026 (354 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to May 2026 | 1,539 tonnes |
| Destination region | Japan |
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.