Melbourne to Sydney
🇦🇺MEL🇦🇺SYDMelbourne Airport to Sydney Kingsford Smith International AirportDomestic, Australia
Distance
706 km
439 miles
Frequency
419 departures a week
S26 schedule
Airlines
8
Qantas, Virgin Australia, Jetstar Airways, codeshares included
Typical delay
15 min
114 departures
The route
Great circle, 706 kmHow delayed is this route?
Measured over monthsDepartures from Melbourne Airport on this route are typically 15 minutes late (likely 12 to 19), across 114 departures we tracked between 2026-04-02 and 2026-09-06.
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- QFQantas
- VAVirgin Australia
- JQJetstar Airways
- WOWorld Airways
- 5HFly540
- DLDelta Air Lines
- QRQatar Airways
- HJHJ
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 124 flight numbers tracked often enough to describe| Flight | Airline | Departs | Aircraft | Departures seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JQ 500 | Jetstar Airways | 06:00 | A320 on 85% of sightings, also A20N, A21N | 25 |
| QF 434 | Qantas | 10:00 | not seen yet | 20 |
| VA 833 | Virgin Australia | 10:00 | not seen yet | 18 |
| QF 468 | Qantas | 16:45 | B738 | 16 |
Departure times are local to Melbourne Airport. A flight appears here once we have tracked it at least 10 times.