Australian Flight Data

Tokyo to Brisbane

Japan · 438 months of data from Jan 1985 · Brisbane to Tokyo

Passengers
192,982
Tokyo to Brisbane, 12 months to May 2026
Both directions
378,672
including Brisbane to Tokyo
Flight time
8h 55m
15m shorter than the return
Load factor
86%
seats filled on this leg

Traffic: 12 months to May 2026

192,982 passengers flew Tokyo to Brisbane in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 378,672 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 86% full, much the same in both directions. This route has been reported for 37 years.

The route

Brisbane Tokyo

Distances are true from Brisbane; the ring marks the distance to Tokyo.

How long is the flight?

Scheduled flight time from Tokyo to Brisbane is 8h 55m gate to gate, over 7,116 km. Coming back takes 9h 10m — 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

2 flight numbers currently scheduled from Tokyo to Brisbane. These are the numbers you book under.

Scheduled every day this week — 14 departures in all.

Jetstar · 1 · Boeing 787-8

JQ10

Qantas · 1 · Airbus A330-200, Airbus A330-300

QF62

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, 1985 to 2026

017,49334,985 May 2025Nov 2025May 2026
017,73835,475Delta 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 2021Feb 2024May 2026
017,73835,475Tigerair Australia stops flying — Feb 2020 COVID-19 border closures begin — Mar 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 2016Apr 2021May 2026
017,73835,475The pilots' dispute grounds domestic aviation — Aug 1989 Domestic deregulation ends the Two Airline Policy — Oct 1990 Virgin 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 Tigerair Australia stops flying — Feb 2020 COVID-19 border closures begin — Mar 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 Jan 1985Apr 2003May 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.

74%85%96% May 2025Nov 2025May 2026
67%81%96% Dec 2022Sep 2024May 2026
49%73%97% May 2016Jan 2020May 2026
13%55%97% Sep 2003Aug 2016May 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: 1.17× the annual average J F: 1.08× the annual average F M: 1.15× the annual average M A: 1.02× the annual average A M: 0.91× the annual average M J: 0.79× the annual average J J: 0.83× the annual average J A: 0.93× the annual average A S: 0.93× the annual average S O: 0.98× the annual average O N: 1.09× the annual average N D: 1.11× the annual average D

Freight

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

0345691 May 2025Nov 2025May 2026
0345691 May 2021Feb 2024May 2026
0345691 May 2016Apr 2021May 2026
05211,042 Jan 1985Apr 2003May 2026

To May 2026

The route in numbers

Busiest month on record35,475 · Jan 2025
Data coverageJan 1985 – May 2026 (438 months)
Freight, 12 months to May 20266,654 tonnes
Destination regionJapan

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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