Australian Flight Data

Taipei to Sydney

Taiwan · 416 months of data from Oct 1991 · Sydney to Taipei

Passengers
68,285
Taipei to Sydney, 12 months to May 2026
Both directions
140,498
including Sydney to Taipei
Flight time
9h 15m
15m shorter than the return
Load factor
86%
seats filled on this leg

Traffic: 12 months to May 2026

68,285 passengers flew Taipei to Sydney in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 140,498 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 86% full, much the same in both directions. This route has been reported for 35 years.

The route

Sydney Taipei

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

How long is the flight?

Scheduled flight time from Taipei to Sydney is 9h 15m gate to gate, over 7,260 km. Coming back takes 9h 30m — a difference of 15m, 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

1 flight number currently scheduled from Taipei to Sydney. 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

CI51

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

06,51513,029 May 2025Nov 2025May 2026
09,97419,947Delta lockdowns close the eastern states — Jul 2021 Omicron wave hits crew availability — Jan 2022 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 2021Nov 2023May 2026
013,69227,384Tigerair 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 Delta lockdowns close the eastern states — Jul 2021 Omicron wave hits crew availability — Jan 2022 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 2016May 2021May 2026
013,69227,384Virgin Blue launches — Aug 2000 Ansett Australia collapses — Sep 2001 Jetstar 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 Delta lockdowns close the eastern states — Jul 2021 Omicron wave hits crew availability — Jan 2022 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 1991Feb 2009May 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.

68%83%98% May 2025Nov 2025May 2026
6%53%100% Jul 2021Feb 2024May 2026
1%51%100% May 2016Mar 2021May 2026
1%51%100% Sep 2003Aug 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: 1.33× the annual average J F: 1.04× the annual average F M: 0.85× the annual average M A: 0.94× the annual average A M: 0.75× the annual average M J: 0.88× the annual average J J: 1.05× the annual average J A: 0.97× the annual average A S: 0.93× the annual average S O: 0.94× the annual average O N: 0.84× the annual average N D: 1.48× the annual average D

Freight

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

0196393 May 2025Nov 2025May 2026
01,2592,519 May 2021Nov 2023May 2026
01,3672,733 May 2016May 2021May 2026
01,3672,733 Oct 1991Feb 2009May 2026

To May 2026

The route in numbers

Busiest month on record27,384 · Dec 2017
Data coverageOct 1991 – May 2026 (416 months)
Freight, 12 months to May 20263,567 tonnes
Destination regionTaiwan

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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