Passengers
120,471
Vancouver to Sydney, 12 months to Jun 2026
Vancouver to Sydney
Canada · 495 months of data from Jan 1985 · Sydney to Vancouver
Both directions
242,637
including Sydney to Vancouver
Flight time
15h 25m
1h 5m longer than the return
At least
80%
full on this leg — a conservative floor
Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026
120,471 passengers flew Vancouver to Sydney in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 242,637 on the route in both directions. This route has been reported for 41 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
Jan 1985
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Peak complete year
2023
266,012 passengers
Latest complete year
2025
228,166 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Sydney; the ring marks the distance to Vancouver.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Vancouver to Sydney is 15h 25m gate to gate, over 12,484 km. Coming back takes 14h 20m — a difference of 1h 5m, 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
2 flight numbers currently scheduled from Vancouver to Sydney. These are the numbers you book under.
Scheduled every day this week — 10 departures in all.
Air Canada · 1 · Boeing 787-9
AC33
Qantas · 1 · Boeing 787-9
QF76
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
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.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
Gaps indicate missing observations, not zero values.
To Jun 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 30,188 · Jan 2026 |
| Data coverage | Jan 1985 – Jun 2026 (495 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Jun 2026 | 4,302 tonnes |
| Destination region | Canada |
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.