Australian Flight Data

Tokyo to Melbourne

Japan · 441 months of data from Jan 1985 · Melbourne to Tokyo

Passengers
136,722
Tokyo to Melbourne, 12 months to May 2026
Both directions
267,698
including Melbourne to Tokyo
Flight time
10h 5m
scheduled, gate to gate
Load factor
89%
seats filled on this leg

Traffic: 12 months to May 2026

136,722 passengers flew Tokyo to Melbourne in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 267,698 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 89% full, much the same in both directions. This route has been reported for 37 years.

The route

Melbourne Tokyo

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

How long is the flight?

Scheduled flight time from Tokyo to Melbourne is 10h 5m gate to gate, over 8,144 km. The return leg is scheduled at much the same, 9h 55m.

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 Melbourne. These are the numbers you book under.

Scheduled every day this week — 10 departures in all.

Japan Airlines · 1 · Boeing 787-8

JL773

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

QF80

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

013,55327,106 May 2025Nov 2025May 2026
013,55327,106Delta 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
015,37930,757Tigerair 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 2016Jun 2021May 2026
015,37930,757The 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 Skywest becomes Virgin Australia Regional Airlines — May 2013 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 1985May 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.

81%88%95% May 2025Nov 2025May 2026
2%49%96% May 2021Dec 2023May 2026
2%49%96% May 2016Oct 2021May 2026
2%49%96% Sep 2003Dec 2017May 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: 1.18× the annual average J F: 1.01× the annual average F M: 1.05× the annual average M A: 0.96× the annual average A M: 0.88× the annual average M J: 0.81× the annual average J J: 0.85× the annual average J A: 0.88× the annual average A S: 1.00× the annual average S O: 1.06× the annual average O N: 1.10× the annual average N D: 1.22× the annual average D

Freight

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

0454909 May 2025Nov 2025May 2026
0469939 May 2021Nov 2023May 2026
06531,305 May 2016Jun 2021May 2026
06531,305 Jan 1985May 2003May 2026

To May 2026

The route in numbers

Busiest month on record30,757 · Jan 2017
Data coverageJan 1985 – May 2026 (441 months)
Freight, 12 months to May 20266,735 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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