Melbourne to Delhi flight

Flights from Melbourne to Delhi start at €1,059.78 and take 17h 21m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Melbourne to Delhi starts at €1,059.78 and takes 17h 21m door to door, run by 1 operator over 10,513 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 11, 2026Priced for October 2, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 17h 21mDoor to door
  • 14h 11mMoving
  • €1,059.78From
  • 1555.9 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on October 2, 2026

Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.

Cheapest€963.02
  1. AirAsia X AA867807:309h 44m17:14Melbourne MELKuala Lumpur KUL
  2. Air India Limited AI530518:275h 55m00:22Kuala Lumpur KULDelhi DEL

Changes at Kuala Lumpur, with 73 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 20h 2mCO2 1555.9 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Fastest€1,200.20
  1. Air India Limited AI128306:1614h 11m20:27Melbourne MELDelhi DEL

Door to door 17h 21mCO2 1555.9 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Air India Limited€977.1816h 54m740 km/hFixed fareNot published
  • Air India Limited

Delhi is big enough that where you sleep decides what the days look like. We sell the seat, not the room.

A hotel room

Rooms within reach of New Delhi railway station

Hotels and apartments near downtown, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.

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Booking window

When to book Melbourne to Delhi

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €1,183.6890 days
  2. €642.0660 days
  3. €678.6445 days
  4. €840.8930 days
  5. €963.0221 days
  6. €1,314.6614 days
  7. €1,822.657 days
  8. €1,866.903 days
  9. €2,418.551 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €642.06.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 277 percent. The most expensive point is €2,418.55, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €1,262.74Sun
  2. €1,187.81Mon
  3. €1,112.88Tue
  4. €1,059.78Wed
  5. €1,432.07Thu
  6. €1,314.66Fri
  7. €1,377.79Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.

Melbourne

Air
  • MEL
  • AVV

Delhi

Air
  • DEL
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.

Direct or connecting
20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 10,513 km against 10,207 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Singapore, Denpasar, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur. The gap between arriving and leaving is 45 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Melbourne at 06:16 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Melbourne to Delhi

The questions people actually ask about this trip, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Flight from Melbourne to Delhi take?

The Flight from Melbourne to Delhi takes 17h 21m door to door, of which 14h 11m is spent moving. The route runs 10,513 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Flight from Melbourne to Delhi cost?

The Flight from Melbourne to Delhi starts at €1,059.78 for one passenger, checked on October 2, 2026. A typical fare is €1,116.42. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Flight from Melbourne to Delhi?

1 operators run the Flight from Melbourne to Delhi: Air India Limited. Between them they file around 5 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Flight from Melbourne to Delhi use?

The Flight from Melbourne to Delhi leaves from Melbourne MEL and arrives at Delhi DEL. Allow about 3h 10m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Flight from Melbourne to Delhi?

Fares for the Flight from Melbourne to Delhi bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €642.06. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 277 percent, measured on October 2, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from Melbourne to Delhi produce?

The Flight from Melbourne to Delhi produces about 1555.9 kg of CO2 per passenger over 10513 km, which works out at roughly 148 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.

Where these numbers come from

Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.

Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modeled number pass for a filed one.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Melbourne to Delhi on September 11, 2026: 10513 km of route against 10207 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €1,059.78, and 17h 21m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Related journeys

Delhi is large, and the road in from DEL can take longer than the last hour of the flight. Cars are not our business.

A taxi stand outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Delhi

Settled in advance, so the ride into Delhi costs what it said it would rather than what the cab stand says.

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