AirportsMelbourne

Melbourne to Sydney

🇦🇺MEL🇦🇺SYDMelbourne Airport to Sydney Kingsford Smith International AirportDomestic, Australia
Distance
706 km
439 miles
Frequency
405 departures a week
S26 schedule
Airlines
8
Qantas, Virgin Australia, Jetstar Airways, codeshares included
Typical delay
17 min
93 departures

The route

Great circle, 706 km
MELSYD706 km
706 km (439 miles) great-circle, measured between the two airports' published coordinates. The line is the shortest path over the globe, which on a flat map bows away from a straight line.

How delayed is this route?

Measured over months

Departures from Melbourne Airport on this route are typically 17 minutes late (likely 13 to 20), across 93 departures we tracked between 2026-04-02 and 2026-08-23.

median delay of tracked departures on this leg. Flight Owl's own resolved departure predictions (flights our users tracked), not a census of all flights at the airport.

Airlines on this route

8 airlines with a flight number here

Every airline that puts its own flight number on this route. On a busy pair most of them are codeshare partners selling seats on another airline's aircraft, so this is wider than the list of airlines that actually operate it.

Flights on this route

4 of 122 flight numbers tracked often enough to describe
FlightAirlineDepartsAircraftDepartures seen
QF 434Qantas10:00not seen yet20
VA 833Virgin Australia10:00not seen yet18
JQ 500Jetstar Airways06:00A320 on 84% of sightings, also A20N, A21N15
QF 468Qantas16:45B73814

Departure times are local to Melbourne Airport. A flight appears here once we have tracked it at least 10 times.

Both airports

How these numbers are measured