Sydney to Port Moresby

Papua New Guinea · 488 months of data from Jan 1985 · Port Moresby to Sydney

Traffic: 12 months to May 2026

7,893 passengers flew Sydney to Port Moresby in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 16,847 on the route in both directions. Traffic leans inbound: 8,954 arriving against 7,893 departing. Flights Sydney to Port Moresby run 42% full, against 47% coming back. This route has been reported for 41 years.

The route

Distances are true from Sydney; the ring marks the distance to Port Moresby.

How long is the flight?

Scheduled flight time from Sydney to Port Moresby is 4h 5m gate to gate, over 2,743 km. The return leg is scheduled at much the same, 3h 55m.

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

2 flight numbers currently scheduled from Sydney to Port Moresby. These are the numbers you book under.

Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Mon, Fri and Sat (5 departures).

Air Niugini · 1 · Airbus A220-300

PX2

Qantas · 1 · Boeing 737-800

QF203

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, 1985 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

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.

Related routes

From Sydney

• Sydney ↔ Singapore
• Sydney ↔ Auckland
• Sydney ↔ Hong Kong
• Sydney ↔ Denpasar
• Sydney ↔ Seoul

To Port Moresby

• Brisbane ↔ Port Moresby
• Cairns ↔ Port Moresby
• Townsville ↔ Port Moresby
• Melbourne ↔ Port Moresby

Airport data

• Sydney Airport