Australian Flight Data

Sydney to Santiago

Chile · 293 months of data from Oct 1998 · Santiago to Sydney

Passengers
132,675
Sydney to Santiago, 12 months to May 2026
Both directions
264,402
including Santiago to Sydney
Flight time
12h 45m
2h 30m shorter than the return
Load factor
86%
seats filled on this leg

Traffic: 12 months to May 2026

132,675 passengers flew Sydney to Santiago in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 264,402 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 86% full, much the same in both directions. This route has been reported for 24 years.

The route

Sydney Santiago

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

How long is the flight?

Scheduled flight time from Sydney to Santiago is 12h 45m gate to gate, over 11,363 km. Coming back takes 15h 15m — a difference of 2h 30m, so this direction is the quicker 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

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

Scheduled every day this week — 11 departures in all.

LATAM · 1 · Boeing 787-9

LA810

Qantas · 1 · Boeing 787-9

QF27

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, 1998 to 2026

014,23128,462 May 2025Nov 2025May 2026
014,23128,462Bonza launches on leisure routes — Nov 2023 Bonza collapses after 15 months — Mar 2024 Rex enters administration and exits the trunk routes — Aug 2024 Cyclone Alfred closes south-east Queensland airports — Mar 2025 May 2021Mar 2024May 2026
014,23128,462Tigerair Australia stops flying — Feb 2020 COVID-19 border closures begin — Mar 2020 The deepest month: domestic traffic falls 96% — Apr 2020 Rex enters the trunk routes with jets — Mar 2021 Bonza launches on leisure routes — Nov 2023 Bonza collapses after 15 months — Mar 2024 Rex enters administration and exits the trunk routes — Aug 2024 Cyclone Alfred closes south-east Queensland airports — Mar 2025 May 2016Feb 2021May 2026
014,23128,462Jetstar launches — May 2004 OzJet's all-business experiment ends within months — Jan 2006 Tiger Airways Australia enters the market — Apr 2008 Volcanic ash cloud disrupts southern Australia — Jun 2011 Qantas grounds its entire fleet — Oct 2011 Skywest becomes Virgin Australia Regional Airlines — May 2013 Tigerair Australia stops flying — Feb 2020 COVID-19 border closures begin — Mar 2020 The deepest month: domestic traffic falls 96% — Apr 2020 Rex enters the trunk routes with jets — Mar 2021 Bonza launches on leisure routes — Nov 2023 Bonza collapses after 15 months — Mar 2024 Rex enters administration and exits the trunk routes — Aug 2024 Cyclone Alfred closes south-east Queensland airports — Mar 2025 Oct 1998Jun 2013May 2026

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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.

54%78%103% May 2025Nov 2025May 2026
8%120%232% Oct 2021May 2024May 2026
8%120%232% May 2016Jan 2021May 2026
8%120%232% Sep 2003Feb 2015May 2026

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.

J: 1.30× the annual average J F: 1.04× the annual average F M: 1.02× the annual average M A: 0.98× the annual average A M: 0.86× the annual average M J: 0.77× the annual average J J: 0.91× the annual average J A: 0.88× the annual average A S: 0.92× the annual average S O: 1.00× the annual average O N: 1.09× the annual average N D: 1.23× the annual average D

Freight

Tonnes of air freight carried on this route — a dimension the domestic data does not have at all.

0324649 May 2025Nov 2025May 2026
0424849 May 2021Mar 2024May 2026
0424849 May 2016Feb 2021May 2026
0424849 Oct 1998Jun 2013May 2026

To May 2026

The route in numbers

Busiest month on record28,462 · Mar 2026
Data coverageOct 1998 – May 2026 (293 months)
Freight, 12 months to May 20266,211 tonnes
Destination regionChile

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.

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