Passengers
72,236
Sydney to Taipei, 12 months to Jun 2026
Sydney to Taipei
Taiwan · 417 months of data from Oct 1991 · Taipei to Sydney
Both directions
140,721
including Taipei to Sydney
Flight time
9h 30m
15m longer than the return
Load factor
91%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026
72,236 passengers flew Sydney to Taipei in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 140,721 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 91% full, much the same in both directions. This route has been reported for 35 years.
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
Oct 1991
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Peak complete year
2018
224,198 passengers
Latest complete year
2025
132,623 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Sydney; the ring marks the distance to Taipei.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Sydney to Taipei is 9h 30m gate to gate, over 7,260 km. Coming back takes 9h 15m — a difference of 15m, 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 Taipei. These are the numbers you book under.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Mon, Wed, Thu, Fri and Sun (5 departures).
China · 1 · Boeing 777-300ER
CI52
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
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.
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 | 27,384 · Dec 2017 |
| Data coverage | Oct 1991 – Jun 2026 (417 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Jun 2026 | 3,695 tonnes |
| Destination region | Taiwan |
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.