Passengers
30,139
Sydney to Shenzhen, 12 months to Jun 2026
Sydney to Shenzhen
China · 186 months of data from Jan 2011 · Shenzhen to Sydney
Both directions
63,459
including Shenzhen to Sydney
Load factor
75%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026
30,139 passengers flew Sydney to Shenzhen in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 63,459 on the route in both directions. Traffic leans inbound: 33,320 arriving against 30,139 departing. Flights Sydney to Shenzhen run 75% full, against 84% coming back.
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 2011
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Latest complete year · also peak
2025
72,252 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Sydney; the ring marks the distance to Shenzhen.
Passengers, 2011 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.
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 Jun 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 7,824 · Jan 2017 |
| Data coverage | Jan 2011 – Jun 2026 (186 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Jun 2026 | 9,020 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.