Passengers
20,792
Sydney to Qingdao, 12 months to May 2026
Sydney to Qingdao
China · 69 months of data from Dec 2010 · Qingdao to Sydney
Both directions
41,403
including Qingdao to Sydney
Flight time
11h 40m
25m longer than the return
Load factor
67%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to May 2026
20,792 passengers flew Sydney to Qingdao in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 41,403 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 67% full, much the same in both directions.
The route
Distances are true from Sydney; the ring marks the distance to Qingdao.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Sydney to Qingdao is 11h 40m gate to gate, over 8,427 km. Coming back takes 11h 15m — a difference of 25m, so this direction is the slower one.
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 Qingdao. These are the numbers you book under.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Mon (1 departure).
Beijing Capital · 1 · Airbus A330-300
JD480
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
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 | 5,842 · Feb 2018 |
| Data coverage | Dec 2010 – May 2026 (69 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to May 2026 | 1,173 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.