Passengers
9,833
Xi'an to Sydney, 12 months to Jun 2026
Xi'an to Sydney
China · 80 months of data from Dec 2015 · Sydney to Xi'an
Both directions
17,152
including Sydney to Xi'an
At least
15%
full on this leg — a conservative floor
Traffic: 12 months to Jun 2026
9,833 passengers flew Xi'an to Sydney in the 12 months to Jun 2026, out of 17,152 on the route in both directions. Traffic leans inbound: 9,833 arriving against 7,319 departing.
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
Dec 2015
first recorded month with passengers > 0
Peak complete year
2018
48,522 passengers
Latest complete year
2025
19,338 passengers
The route
Distances are true from Sydney; the ring marks the distance to Xi'an.
Passengers, 2015 to 2026
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.
To Jun 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 4,884 · Dec 2018 |
| Data coverage | Dec 2015 – Jun 2026 (80 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to Jun 2026 | 752 tonnes |
| Destination region | China |
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.